CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY: Some 200 internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Higaonon tribe have encamped at the Vicente Lara Park fronting the Provincial Capitol here after a dialogue with the military did not push through last Friday.

The IDPs from Sitio Camansi and Tapul in Barangay Banglay, Lagonglong town, 65 kilometers east of Cagayan de Oro, had sought refuge at the town gymnasium two weeks ago and soldiers from the 58th Infantry Battalion (IB) pitched “bayanihan” team activities (BTA) tent in front of it.

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