But, alas, the call for climate action and environmental protection remains unheard of in our country. Instead of taking measures to protect the environment and creating counter-measures to further prohibit environmental degradation, the call for our nature’s protection has now escalated into a full-blown attack on human rights violations.
By favoring the foreign-market investments and development projects, the Aquino administration has endangered the lives of thousands of civilians, especially those who are advocates of genuine agrarian reforms and environmental protection. Bukidnon –whose lush forests and mountains are home to rich deposits like gold, magnesium and other valuable minerals — is now in the middle of an environmental and human rights slaughter. The agri-business expansion and large-scale mining activities have greatly caused rights violations especially extrajudicial killings. From 2010 up to the present, under President Benigno Aquino III’s term, 159 cases of human rights violations have occurred in Bukidnon. Among the victims of extrajudicial killings, five out of six were environmentalists and Lumad leaders.
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