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Are indigenous Filipinos being murdered for anti-mine activism?

By Lennart Hofman

How paramilitaries rule by fear in Mindanao

Kailo Bontulan sat in front of a cluster of thatched bamboo huts next to a humble Protestant church in Davao, a city on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao. About 700 members of his indigenous community fled there almost a year ago following deadly attacks by paramilitary groups.

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