How did politics kill Tedurays in the Kusiong landslides?

  • 6 months ago
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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