How did politics kill Tedurays in the Kusiong landslides?

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When Severe Tropical Storm Paeng (Nalgae) hit the Philippines in late October 2022, at least 27 Tedurays died at the foothills of Mt. Minandar in the municipality of Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte province. Heavy rainfall triggered multiple, fatal landslides that buried 11 babies and children, and destroyed at least 100 houses. But this wouldn't have happened, community sources said, if they weren't forced to vacate their shoreline homes two years earlier to build private resorts. One of them is owned by a political family.  Read the report: https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/investigative/disaster-landslides-kusiong-maguindanao-del-norte-politics-killed-non-moro-indigenous-peoples/

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00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 - We need probabilistic search assessment,

00:05 risk assessment.

00:06 - On the night of October 27, 2022,

00:11 Cas couldn't sleep.

00:13 In his words, the skies could not stop crying.

00:16 Cas drifted in the flood along with debris for hours

00:22 and ended up being buried alive in mud.

00:25 He survived the crushing landslides.

00:29 - And the rest, (speaking in foreign language)

00:32 they cannot speak anymore because they're dead.

00:36 So who will speak for them?

00:38 - By morning, 27 Tiduray had died,

00:42 many of them babies and children.

00:44 (speaking in foreign language)

00:49 (dramatic music)

00:52 (gentle music)

00:55 (chimes)

00:57 (chimes)

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