A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley
A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley
MANILA — For the farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao, the past several years had been a period of great danger and violence.
During the recent Lakbayan, a national peasant caravan that brought farmers and peasants from all over the country to Mendiola to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Mendiola Massacre, farmers from the Southern Mindanao region reminded everybody of the bloody history of the struggle of Lumads in Compostela Valley province for over 92,000 hectares of ancestral domain.
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