BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Some 500 Bugkalot tribesmen from three provinces have converged for a dialogue that turned into a bloody rally for three days now in front of an American firm in the far-flung village of Pelaway in Castañeda town as military and police authorities reportedly “harshly” intervened.

Officials of the Bugkalot Federation said their members from the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Aurora and Quirino are there to claim their share in the profits by the California Energy (CE) in its Casecnan water and energy facilities constructed in their ancestral domain.

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