Almost 500 Aetas, including children, were killed on that fateful day in June 1991. Many of them refused to go down from the mountain and preferred to die in the bosom of their ancestral land.
According to Dionisio, the area is just a portion of the ancestral land that belongs to the Aeta communities of Yangil and Banawen in San Felipe, Zambales that had stood barren for some 30 years.
OLONGAPO CITY — An Aeta leader from Zambales province filed a petition with the local office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Monday, asking that his certificate of candidacy (COC) be ...