ASEAN HEADLINES: MANILA- Justice sought for 9 slain in Panay raids

TUMANDOK KILLINGS A police officer (right photo) takes a picture of firearms allegedly seized in one of the houses they raided on Dec. 30 in Tapaz town, Capiz province, where nine members of the Tumandok tribe were killed when they allegedly fought against officers serving a search warrant. One of those killed was Roy Giganto (left) shown in this file photo, who is chair
of Tamunduk, an organization opposing a damproject that would displace them from their ancestral land on Panay Island. —PHOTOS FROM KILUSANG MAGBUBUKID NG PILIPINAS/POLICE REGIONAL OFFICE 6

 

 

 

 

Members of progressive groups on Thursday condemned the Rizal Day killings of nine members of an indigenous community that is opposed to a dam project on Panay Island and demanded justice for the victims of what they called a “massacre.”

 

The Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives said it would seek a congressional investigation of the predawn raids on Dec. 30 by police and soldiers that led to the deaths of several leaders and members of the Tumandok, the largest ethnic group in the hinterlands of Pana

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