More than half or 60-percent of approved 507 mining applications for nickel, copper, gold and other minerals, covering 1,027,348 hectares, straddle ancestral territories, affecting more than 30 tribes, the Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP) said in a statement........
“Laiban Dam will displace us from our ancestral domain. It will submerge seven barangays in Rizal and Quezon, which are all communities of the Dumagat people. If this destructive dam pushes through, delos Santos warned that they will declare a war against Aquino.
http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/08/23/scourges-such-as-mining-military-aggression-slammed-at-intl-day-of-indigenous-peoples/
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