The bloody attacks are blamed on a 'pangayaw' (tribal conflict) involving Talaandig tribal families feuding about who had a right over a farm within an ancestral domain in the town of Lantapan.
CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines – Police launched a manhunt against a man and his sons tagged as the primary suspects in the brutal killing of five people, including a child, in attacks that left a tribal community in Bukidnon horrified on Sunday, November 27. that started with a dispute involving Talaandig tribal families on who had the right over a farm within an ancestral domain in the town of Lantapan, Bukidnon.
A sixth victim, Mael Lugnasan, survived a gunshot wound in the stomach and was recuperating in a hospital. Police said the armed group first barged into the house of lone survivor Mael Lugnasan and shot him and four of the victims. The tribal village and the contested farm were within a protected Talaandig ancestral territory recognized under the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act of 1997.
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