Indigenous tribesmen threaten to campaign v. Team Unity
Filed under: Mine - Canatuan, Mineral - Copper, Mineral - Gold, Operator - TVI Pacific, Operator - TVI Resource Dev., Region 09 - Zamboanga Del Norte
SOME 3,000 indigenous folks in Zamboanga del Norte threatened to campaign against the candidates of Team Unity for the Senate and local positions if the government will continue to ignore their petition to stop the mining operations of a Canadian mining firm.
They also threatened to bring their grievances to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) if the government continues to play deaf to their complaints.
Last March 22, leaders and community members of Subanons in Mount Canatuan, Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte, filed with the Mines and Bureau Geo-Sciences-Western Mindanao a “manifestation with urgent motion for speedy resolution” of earlier petition they filed on April 20, 2006.
The petition was for the cancellation of the Mineral Production Sharing Agreement No. 054-96-IX of the TVI Resource, which they claimed would help “to attain meaningful life in their ancestral domain.”
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