“Shall we wait for more lives to be lost? Shall we wait for another mayor again to be ambushed?” — Tabuk City Mayor Camilo Lammawinasking national agencies and President Arroyo to resolve the Rizal land dispute after the convoy of Rizal Mayor Chris Marc de la Cruz was ambushed. Lammawin heads the Kalinga chapter of the League of Municipalities in the Philippines. Full story here.
“Ito ay pagganti kay mayor (de la Cruz) dahil sa demolition./This is revenge on the mayor because of the demolition. We don’t see any other motive.” — Cordillera Police Regional Director Raul Gonzales.
Another violent incident: Rizal Mayor Chris Marc de la Cruz and his father former Mayor Marcelo de la Cruz were ambushed last Wednesday, August 8. Both survived the attack but the elder de la Cruz (right) was wounded.
The town’s chief of police (Senior Inspector Renato Cairel) five policemen (SPO2 Gabriel Desay, SPO2 Sergio Ladaga, PO3 Cesar Abagan, PO3 Randel Lacuesta and PO2 Felix Turingan) and three civilian security aides (Rodel Boromeo, Francis Durian and Roger Domingo) were also injured.
So I was googling my time away and found the picture above. He is identified as a man from Butbut, Tinglayan and is supposed to be modeling the indigenous weave of Kalinga. The picture is part of a book called Sinaunang Habi which was published by former Senator Nikki Coseteng.
“Shall we wait for more lives to be lost? Shall we wait for another mayor again to be ambushed?”
