MANILA - A resolution was filed at the House of Representatives calling for an investigation on the shooting in an ancestral land of the Manobo tribe in Bukidnon visited by presidential aspirant Leody de Guzman. Bayan Muna Reps. Eufemia Cullamat, Carlos Zarate, and Ferdinand Gaite filed on Monday House Resolution 2561, which urges the House committee on human rights to conduct an investigation, in aid of legislation on the incident. "The violence and the attacks against the indigenous peoples (IP) have been ongoing with impunity for quite some time now without resolution and proper intervention by the government," the House lawmakers said in the resolution. Last Tuesday, De Guzman's party, the Partido Lakas ng Masa (PLM), said the meeting with the leaders of the Manobo-Pulangiyon tribe in Barangay Butong was marred by gunshots. At least five people were injured, four of them members of the Manobo-Pulangihon indigenous tribe. The shooting came as the tribe protested the al
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Acting presidential spokesperson and Communications Secretary Martin Andanar (File photo) MANILA - The Duterte administration is continuously addressing the long-standing pleas of farmers and indigenous peoples (IPs) for genuine land reform, Malacanang said Thursday. This, after labor leader and presidential candidate Leodegario "Ka Leody" de Guzman called on the government to address land grabbing which has led to mass exodus of IPs from their ancestral lands. "President Rodrigo Roa Duterte remains committed to delivering genuine agrarian reform in the country," acting presidential spokesperson Martin Andanar said in a press statement. Citing government data, Andanar said the administration distributed 229,289 hectares of agricultural lands from July 2016 to May 2021, benefitting 166,217 Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries. He said the government also issued 57 Certificates of Ancestral Domain Titles (CADTs), covering 993,345.17 hectares of ancestral domains, which benef