Labor Pains in Ancestral Lands
After suffering the pain of defending ancestral homelands and broken ties of kinship, the church has finally stepped in.
July 13, 2004
Inang Nai Sinta boru Sibarani speaks in a monotone voice. Sometimes she smiles cynically whenever recounting her experience of being interrogated by the police. She and nine other inang were arrested for uprooting eucalyptus plantsthe raw material for pulp and rayonowned by Indorayon in Sugapa Village, Silaen, Porsea. It was an act of defiance over the meager compensation they received for their lands. They say they were forced to accept just jus
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