Indigenous leaders killed in Philippines were ‘red-tagged’ over dam opposition

Mongabay
Feb 8, 2021, 12:11 am186 pts
AKLAN, Philippines — At dawn on Dec. 30, 2020, police officers raided Indigenous villages within a military reservation camp in the central Philippines in search of alleged members of the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the banned communist party. During the raid, authorities killed nine leaders and…

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