Johnny Pimentel on Friday said the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary force that recently killed a school director and two Manabo lumad residents in Lianga town was a “monster created by the military.” ...

“The Army provided the bagani with weapons and bullets,” he said. The military has denied the charge vehemently and has accused the NPA of exploiting the lumad by recruiting villagers from ...

According to Human Rights Watch (HRW), hundreds of Lumad, an umbrella term for multiple ... and military abuses — members of the Mahagat-Bagani militia, which it describes as a government ...

The Lumad fought for their land with their lives ... The killings were blamed on the Magahat-Bagani, a group that the military allegedly organized and armed. The AFP denied having any involvement ...

The Lumad evacuees refuse to go home until they are given assurances of security and until the Magahat-Bagani paramilitary group are held accountable for their "atrocities." Lumad families fled ...

Several families fled their homes after the Bagani paramilitary group, led by a certain Jasmin Acevedo, killed Lumad brothers Crisanto and Loloy Tagugol in the poblacion area of San Miguel town in ...

VISITING LUMAD SCHOOLS. Military troops enter the school ... On August 26, members of paramilitary group Magahat Bagani Force destroyed two of the academy’s buildings and a teachers’ cottage.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has also been criticized for appropriating the term when it formed a paramilitary group called Magahat-Bagani. The group was pit against fellow lumad ...

The lumad, or members of indigenous communities ... and herded them to a basketball court a kilometer away were members of the Magahat-Bagani. These men killed Campos and Sinzo in their presence.

First, officials claim that the AFP is not in any way connected to the Magahat-Bagani and other paramilitary groups behind the killing of lumad in various parts of Mindanao. “I deny that report na ...

“Bagani” has been slammed in the past for its ... nakatulong pa sa awareness ng Lumad struggle,” Kenneth Cadiang, a Kapampangan and young teacher in the Alternative Learning Center for ...