TY  - BOOK
TI  - Red is the color of the River Pulangi and other stories from the margins
SN  - 9789719550006
AV  - JC 599.P52  .R245 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - [Iligan City]
PB  - Rural Missionaries of the Philippines, Northern Mindanao Sub-Region
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Philippines
KW  - sears
KW  - Northern Mindanao
N2  -  and offer hope amid intense struggle to defend people's rights;  sour indignation and action; A family's gruesome fate in the hands of supposed "peace-keepers." A mother wracked with guilt for the death of her son. A fisherman who found out the hard way what the laws are not. A government worker and a community leader paying the ultimate price for going against "developmental programs". And other stories for community folks whose plain lives were caught in the vortex of state oppression and repression in Northern Mindanao, Philippines. By weaving together various reports, affidavits, anecdotal interviews and personal accounts, the Rural Missionaries of the Philippines. These narratives-brief and poignant-simply refuse to be relegated with the ever-growing statistics of state-sponsored violence and human rights violations in the country. More than despair and anguish, they seethe with anger and defiance
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