MYRNA SIOSE: Quiet force behind ancestral land fight in Mindanao

2026-03-18 - 21:10

The dust had barely settled on the makeshift tents along the national highway when gunfire rang out. It was April 19, 2022, in Quezon town, Bukidnon. The Manobo-Pulangiyon tribe, displaced for several years, had gathered the courage to finally step onto a fraction of their 1,000-hectare ancestral land. Among those who accompanied them was labor