Provincial News
Slain IP leader’s son cries for justice By Jennifer P. Gaitano
BUTUAN CITY - The family of Datu Bontula Tinaghao Mansinugdan, an Indigenous People (IP) leader in a village in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur, welcomed the new year with grief as they learned the killing of their family member by the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People’s Army (CPP-NPA). Datu Bontula was found dead near the Kinabonglohan Creek, Barangay Kinamaybay, Esperanza, Agusan del Sur on January 1 after he was shot dead by the terrorist CPP-NPA.
forcibly tied his father and abducted them.
Gali could not accept and understand until this time as to why the CPP-NPA inhumanely killed his father. He was with Datu Bontula on December 31, 2019, when the terrorist group had
Meanwhile, NCIP Caraga Regional Director Ferdausi Saniel Cerna said that the Commission and other concerned agencies will give the needed assistance to the bereaved
He was also saddened to recall that one of the NPA members who called his father “bayaw” or brother-in At his young age, Gali – not law did not help them. his real name, an 11-year old son of Datu Bontula, accompanied by their While Gali was recounting the punong barangay asked for help from details to the media, he also stressed the National Commission on Indigenous that he would never forget how his Peoples (NCIP) and the national father suffered from the hands of the government and pleaded for justice to NPA, and he would fulfill his dream to be served for the untimely death of his become a soldier when he grows up, father. so he could protect his tribe.
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Caraga Infocus
January 18-24, 2020
