“By experience, tribal leaders who were repeatedly branded and investigated by soldiers end up dead.”
To join the paramilitary or to be killed? Talaingod datu chose to leave home
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‘We shall defend our land, we shall never surrender’
“Land is our life. Water springs from here and we live here.” These are the statements of several Datu of the indigenous group Manobo, led by Datu Guibang, who has become a local legend. They declared it to us journalists in the hinterlands of Talaingod, Davao del Norte on May 14 as they call on…
Standing by, defending the Talaingod Manobo
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star They’re at it again, or rather, they haven’t stopped doing it. Over the past two months they have been doing the same in Talaingod, Davao del Norte and other places in the Davao region. I refer to the AFP’s counterinsurgency forces under Oplan Bayanihan…