SOUTH UPI, Maguindanao -- Local officials here will convene the town peace and order council to settle peacefully an emerging land dispute involving farmers belonging to two tribes, officials said.
Mayor Abdullah Campong, who chairs the municipal peace and order council (MPOC), will meet with representatives from Teduday community and Maguindanaons today to settle their boundary dispute.
Representatives from Department of Agrarian Reform and Department of Environment and Natural Resources were invited, and police and military as well as tribal and Muslim religious leaders are expected to attend the meeting.
On Sunday, a shooting erupted in a remote village here triggered by a land dispute that left two persons dead and two wounded, police said.
Senior Inspector Ruel Villarin, chief of police of South Upi, Maguindanao, said the armed conflict involved Teduday indigenous people’s community and Maguindanaons in Sitio Bajar, Barangay Pandan, a farming community.
Villarin said the Tedudays were harvesting corn when a group of Maguindanaons tried to stop them.
”It was land dispute, both sides have a misunderstanding over farm lot boundaries,” Villarin said in a radio interview of the fighting that occurred at 7 a.m. Sunday.
He identified one of the fatalities as Celsu Buludan, 33, a Teduday, and one from the Maguindanaon side who triggered the attack. One from each side was also wounded.
Villarin said the slain Moro was carried by retreating armed men and was not identified.
To prevent further armed confrontation between the two groups, a team of Philippine Marines was deployed in the area, Villarin said.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/93061/maguindanao-officials-settle-boundary-row-to-avert-more-bloodshed
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