An interview with Datu Matingaw
Guide: The reason that the land grabbing problem is not heard in the social media is that the government twist and falsified the stories. They always made use of other issues, in the social media, like of the senate hearings on various laws. That 's why the issues of the minority is unknown. And now we are about to hear it from the victims themselves.
Datu Matingaw: Good afternoon. I am Datu Matingaw. Datu Matiningaw means transparent, and it is what they call me. Regarding our place, different issues happen there in Mindanao. In my case, in Bukidnon. I started to join the protest with my fellow Lumads in our place and during that time, there were 5 tribes and the moro-christians in addition. In 2008, we gathered
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The people do not agree in having them in our town. Those military threatens us and causes the death of our member, Margarito Kabal. It was on May 9 2012 when he was killed during our protest regarding the event that happened last April 1 2012. On that day in April, there were bombings that happened, there were 14 bombs being dropped by the military 's helicopter . During that day, the military of FIV have an encounter with the military of the New People 's Army. At that time, Margarito Kabal is still alive and I am with him when we got arrested, but with God 's mercy, I was saved. Then, all of us did various ways to help ourselves. We went to different sanguniang bayan. 10 000 individuals and 3665 families were greatly affected. Also, 40 000 hectares of land were used as a reservoir. On April 25 2012, we organized ourselves and went to the local government and to vice governor Zubiri to stop their plans. Their reason for creating those water pipes and such is because of the rotating brown outs that occurs most of the time. However, it is the land that is important to us. When we went to the office in Mindanao on the same year, we were told by the PBCO that we, the Lumads, cannot do anything about it since it the …show more content…
I am Bai Joseline from Butong Quezon, Bukidnon, Northern Mindanao region. We are one with the Pambansang Minorya of the ManiLakbayan. In my case, our homeland have already a certificate that states that it belongs to us. But until now, the armed security guards of Pauline Lorenzo continues to invade. They want us to vacate for them to acquire our homeland. Last April 23 2014, houses in our community were fired with guns and were destroyed by the security guards. We all started to cry. They continue to push us away from our homeland. It seems that they are still not contented with the devastation they 've done. Last March 24 2015, we went to plow our land to plant some corns for us to have something to harvest for our living. But we were massacred by the security guards. Our fellow, Tata Beato Mabini was killed. Two more from our colleague was physically injured. It hurts that our land is being taken by them. Months after Tata Beato 's death, 14 houses were destroyed by the security. We were continually harassed by them. The schools were shattered using a bolo. Even our kitchenwares were confiscated. We all gathered in our tribal hall to live there since most of our houses were destroyed. Until now, the abuses of the oppressive foreigners to us, the people in the Northern Mindanao persist. Most specially to the natives, and this pains us. We are one with the Pambansang Minorya so that our issue will be known here in Manila.
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A. A. The Philippines People, Poverty and Politics. New York: The New York Times. St. Martins's P, 1987. 1-225.