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Indigenous Communities’ Resistance to Corporate Mining in the Philippines

On September 1, 2015, three highly respected leaders of the Lumad, non-Muslim and non-Christian indigenous peoples in the island of Mindanao, Philippines, were brutally shot and hacked to death. According to witnesses, this was perpetrated by a paramilitary group, trained and armed for counterinsurgency by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). One of those killed was Emerico Samarca, director of the Alternative Learning Center for Agricultural and Livelihood Development (ALCADEV), a school for Lumad children. These recent killings of the Lumad people in Mindanao are not isolated. They highlight a bloody pattern of killings and impunity directed against indigenous peoples’ communities in the Philippines. During the past five years alone, since July 2010 under President B.S. Aquino, 73 people from indigenous peoples’ communities nationwide have been killed, of which 57 are Lumads in Mindanao. Why are these deplorable attacks and violence being inflicted on indigenous communities in the Philippines? Why are mining companies and their operations in the Philippines often accompanied by militarization and violence in the ancestral lands of indigenous peoples?