Indigenous Mindanao People in Philippines Fight for Food, Land & Justice - 28:59
Indigenous Lumad Leaders from Mindanao, in Their Fight for Food, Land, and
Justice Take Aim at US Funding Philippino Militarization
On April 1, 2016, the Philippine National Police opened fire on an estimated 6,000 peasant and indigenous farmers who had barricaded a national highway in the southern Philippines. Three were killed, more than 100 wounded, and
at least 70 detained. The farmers were demanding the distribution of food
relief after more than 7-months of drought had caused widespread famine.
Since 2010, at least 70 indigenous people from the southern island of
Mindanao (collectively known as Lumad) have been killed for their outspoken
stand to defend their ancestral domains from economic and ecological
plunder. The Philippines has the world’s second largest gold deposits, more
than half are
in Mindanao. Even indigenous community schools have
come under attack through military occupation and vilification. Currently,
there are nearly 3,000 indigenous individuals who have been displaced from
their communities
due to military occupation in an effort to clear the land
for mining operations. Indigenous people of the Philippines are
increasingly being vilified, harassed, and murdered for defending their
ancestral land from foreign corporate interests.
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