A member of the Manobo tribe performs a ritual of sacrificing a wild boar at Don Chino Roces Bridge in Mendiola during a rally on Monday, November 24. The lumads are in Manila to protest against large-scale mining operations on their ancestral land in Mindanao and military encampments in their communities. Leo Esclanda
Members of indigenous groups from Mindanao and Southern Luzon on Wednesday vandalized the walls of Armed Forces of the Philippines headquarters in Camp Aguinaldo.
Photos posted on Twitter by radio dzBB's Sam Nielsen showed the militants using spray paint to scrawl anti-military slogans.
Some of the militants demanded justice for alleged human rights violations committed by the military's Oplan Bayanihan.
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Mga militante, nagawang mapinturahan ng spray paint ang bakuran ng Gate 2 ng Kampo Aguinaldo | via @dzbbsamnielsen
Other photos showed soldiers cleaning the vandalized walls.
The militants also spray-painted Gate 2 and the grounds.
On Monday, the indigenous groups held a protest march and headed for Mendiola near Malacañang, and spent Monday night there.
A report on GMA News TV's "Balita Pilipinas Ngayon" said some of the protesters walked all the way from Mindanao and called for a stop to mining.
They also protested the presence of US soldiers, saying some members of indigenous groups were mistaken for New People's Army rebels.
The protesters plan to keep up their protests until Dec. 10.
This is Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) front group anti-government/military propaganda activity and is part of "Manilakbayan" activities the purpose of which is to discredit the Philippine government/military on human rights issues with special emphasis on attacking the military's OPLAN Bayanihan development efforts in the countryside that seek to undermine the influence of the Maoist New People's Army (NPA), the military wing of the CPP.
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