A single grain of rice

By: spulmano

Jul 02 2011

Category: Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat, Mindanao, Peace Mindanao

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Palimbang, Mindanao, June 30, 2011 – More than 6000 people in northern Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat are affected as a land ownership disagreement escalated into armed conflict. Initial government and Red Cross assessment noted only 90 families have been affected, but after a week of continued strife, hundreds of families have fled to neighboring villages. Casualties are estimated 20 and one negotiator from the area is reported killed. A new team of negotiators arrived, but there is no news yet of an end. Red Cross arrived on the 30^th and the governor’s representatives and the mayor who was in Manila the entire time.

PASALI brought a team with medical team from Kapayapaan Kapatid Council, and distributed food and medical supplies to over 2000 evacuees June 28-29. PASALI found Moro, Christian familes huddled in a Madrasa and elementary school building and Indigenous Peoples camping with no shelter on the beach or on make-shift huts. Three pregnant women were on site, one gave birth on the night of the 28^th. PASALI dispatches a second relief team on Monday, July 4, 2011 to areas with evacuees who have received no help for over a week.