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Article

19 Oct 2013

Author:
Marya Salamat, Bulatlat (Philippines)

Prosecutor’s dismissal of case against accused soldiers in Capion massacre slammed [Philippines]

…Juvy Capion, wife of Blaan leader and anti-mining activist Daguil Capion, was killed in “a military operation” along with her two sons…[in] Davao del Sur…[A recent] resolution from the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor…ordered the dismissal of the murder raps…[H]uman rights organizations and environmentalists held a protest action at the...Department of Justice…demanding justice for the killing of the Capion family…The Capion massacre has been linked to the biggest mining project in the country: the $5.9-billion open-pit gold and copper mining project of mining giant Xstrata-SMI (now Glencore-Xstrata-SMI). Juvy’s husband…had declared a…war for defence of their ancestral domain after it reportedly became clear to him that the indigenous peoples’ communities would forcibly be removed from their present territories to give way to the huge mining project…