DAVAO CITY --- The indigenous people in Mindanao has been waging war against Spanish and American colonizers, long before the communist New People's Army (NPA) existed, said a militant lumad group on Tuesday, taking offense from President Duterte's statement's that the NPA has been using the Lumad. "Long before there was the NPA (New People's Army), the lumad was already fighting for its ancestral lands against plantations and mining. We never stopped fighting since the time of the Spaniards and the Americans," Dulphing Ogan, speaking for Kalumaran, said on Tuesday. Kalumaran is an alliance of ethnolinguistic groups in Mindanao. Ogan was reacting to President Duterte's statement th...
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