Feb 07 2008

Photo Essay: Datal Bonlangon

Published by kitoy at 5:18 pm under Human Rights, Photojournalism

Since 1991, several Lumad families have been displaced due to the expansion of Consunji-owned coffee plantation in the hinterlands of Barangay Ned, Lake Sebu, South Cotabato. The villagers are now struggling to reclaim their ancestral domain.

The Lumads families, mostly T’bolis, says the expansion of the coffee plantation is choking them as they have almost nothing left to cultivate.

Aside from this slideshow, a 7-minute video documentary about the village can viewed here.




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