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BAGUIO CITY – In celebration of the 36th anniversary of the historic Mount Data ‘sipat’ for the exchange of peace tokens between the Philippine government and the Cordillera Bodong Administration–Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army (CBA-CPLA), the Malacañang declared September 13 as a special non-wor ....
PEACE TALKS. Gabino Ganggangan (3rd from left), Leonardo Bun-as (5th) and Andres Ngao-i (rightmost) - who took part in the peace agreement between the government and the Cordillera People's Liberation Army more than three decades ago - commemorate the founding anniversary of the Cordillera Administrative Region, at Mount Data Hotel in Mountain Province in this file photo on Sept. 13, 2021. The region's quest for autonomy continues as its people preserve peace and order in the region. (PNA file photo by Liza T. Agoot) BAGUIO CITY - Thirty-six years ago, in September 1986, government officials and the local armed group Cordillera People's Liberation Army (CPLA) sat down to talk about peace and the possible laying down of arms at the Mt. Data Hotel in Bauko, Mountain Province. The tension-filled yet successful peace talks led to the creation of what is now the Cordillera Administrative Region. Andres Ngao-i of the Kalinga province, who was in his 20s when he served with the se ....
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – The long-standing conflict between the Butbut tribe in Tinglayan, Kalinga and the Betwagan tribe in Sadanga, Mt. Province has reached Malacañang, according to Kalinga Bodong Council chairperson Andres Ngao-i.
‘The river will bleed red’: Indigenous Filipinos face down dam projects by Karlston Lapniten on 26 February 2021 For more than five decades, Indigenous communities in the northern Philippines have pushed back against the planned construction of hydropower dams on the Chico River system. The river is of great importance to Indigenous communities in the provinces of Kalinga and Mountain Province, who call it their “river of life” and have depended on it for generations. The Upper Tabuk and Karayan dams have been proposed in some form or another since the 1970s, but are now backed by corporations created by Indigenous groups, causing divisions among communities. ....