Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP)

Midway into the campaign period, indigenous people’s organization Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP) urged the media to turn its cameras over partylist campaigns. “Campaign trails of partylists are prominently absent in election coverages, ” Piya Macliing Malayao, Bontoc-Igorot and spokesperson of KAMP said. “The media plays a major role in raising awareness of partylist elections, and helps the electorate decide the best group to speak for the marginalized sectors. Maybe the media could turn the spotlight on partylist groups as we are inching towards election day.”

Another tribal leader was slain in the tumultous SMI-Xstrata mine site in the borders of South Cotabato and Davao del Sur last January 29, 2013. Kitari Capion, the brother of Daguel Capion, was allegedly fired upon by members of the Task Force Kitacom, a composite of Cafgu and 39th Infantry Batallion. An alliance of indigenonus peoples warn that this killing will protract the tribal war or pangayaw being waged by the Blaan people against the mining TNC.

We write in response to the exchange between the two revolutionary movements in the Philippines, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Communist Party of the Philippines. The statements of both parties caught our attention as an interested party in the on-going peace talks of the two belligerent groups with the Government of the Philippines (GPH).  

“The AFP's hands are stained with the blood of indigenous peoples and environment activists,” Piya Macliing Malayao, spokesperson of Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan (KAMP) said. “On the contrary, they are the muscle and the hired guns of mining corporations, logging, and other environmentally-destructive projects. Bautista and the AFP are far from being 'green warriors.'”

Indigenous peoples' organization Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP), described the 'superbody' created by the Aquino government to address the cases of extrajudicial killings and other human rights violations as "a feeble cover up to the growing list of human rights transgressions committed by State forces."

Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas and KATRIBU Indigenous Peoples' Partylist put up a 'tally board' of extra-judicial killings of indigenous peoples under the Aquino administration along EDSA today. The tally board accounts for the extra-judicial killings of indigenous peoples under President Aquino.

BAGUIO CITY—From October 26-28, 2012 various concerned organizations conducted an independent environmental and social investigatory mission (EIM) on the Philex Tailings Dam 3 Failure in Benguet and Pangasinan. The EIM aims to test water and silt samples obtained from various sites for heavy metals present, document effects and impact to lowland communities in Pangasinan.

The Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Mamamayan ng Pilipinas (KAMP) condemns the massacre of a Blaan family in the Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI) mine site in Tampakan, South Cotabato. Piya Macliing Malayao, KAMP spokesperson, described the killings as “barbaric, and their killers are the most brutal.”