Reacting to statements made by President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, February 1 at a gathering at the military’s Mindanao Eastern Command headquarters that he would open up ancestral domains to investors (https://www.rappler.com/nation/195043-duterte-find-investors-ancestral-domains), Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC/Friends of the Earth Philippines) said: “Investors and corporations have historically been the cause of injustices against indigenous peoples. Pre

"Naalarma ako nung humiling ang prosecution ng provisional dismissal na naman. Naisip ko na nangyari na ito noon -- na-provisionally dismiss tapos na-revive. Naisip ko na kung papayagan ni Judge, magiging walang katapusan; na masmaigi na lang na ipagtuloy natin ang hearing sa susunod na buwan kesa sa provisional dismissal," ("I was alarmed when the prosecution asked for a provisional dismissal. I remembered that they asked for provisional dismissal before -- which was granted