Indigenous people in Philippines’s north ‘ready to fight’ as tensions rise

The remote island of Itbayat is in the eye of any conflict with China and its residents are preparing themselves., This is the second of two reports from the Philippines’s northernmost province of Batanes. You can read the first – from Mavulis Island – here. Itbayat, Philippines – Eleuterio Malupa still remembers December 7, 1941. On the same day as the Japanese military attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, it launched coordinated attacks across the Philippines, then a colony of the United States. On Itbayat, the tiny island,2024-04-09 00:01:00,Read More