Street protesters in Manila urging for more security for the country's environmental activists on Philippine's 'National Day of Protest' in 2017. — Wikimedia
ON Aug 23, 2020, Bae Merlin Ansabu Celis, a leader of the Philippine indigenous Lumad-Manobo people, was brutally murdered in Magpet, Cotabato.
“Four unknown men shot her, slashed her throat, and removed her eyes with a machete,” according to one report. Celis was an advocate for indigenous rights and an opponent of illegal logging and other exploitative activities.
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