Displaced villagers from barangay Buhisan, San Agustin town in Surigao del Sur, many of them children, find refuge at the sports center turned evacuation area in Tandag City, September 4, 2015. They fled their homes after the massacre of three
A vendor sells lanzones and mangosteen while attending to her children on a sidewalk in Malaybalay City on Saturday, September 5, 2015. MindaNews photo by H. Marcos C. Mordeno
TANDAG CITY (MindaNews/05 September) — Surigao del Sur Governor Johnny Pimentel wants the Philippine Army to “disband and disarm” the Bagani Forces, a paramilitary group composed of Lumads (Indigenous peoples) suspected to have been responsible for the killing of three
GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews/05 Sept)— It’s September and in this time of year, people flock here for the Tuna Festival, a week-long merrymaking marking the charter anniversary of this city built by a flourishing fishing industry. General Santos City is
STATEMENT On the Lianga and Pangantucan Lumad Massacres in Mindanao by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines “Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed.” Psalm 82:3 NIV The National Council
STATEMENT Attacks on Mindanao Lumad schools and communities intensify as Aquino’s military goes berserk for Oplan Bayanihan by Save Our Schools Network The last year of the Benigno S. Aquino presidency has meant a bloodbath for indigenous peoples and for Lumad
