The government should stop treating indigenous peoples (IPs or lumad) poorly if it wants to stop poverty, Vice President Ma. Leonor Robredo said on Thursday.

The Vice President made the statement during the IP Leaders Assembly in General Santos City, a week after the violent dispersal of protesting IPs at the US Embassy in Manila wherein a police car tried to run over the lumad at least four times.

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