BONTOC, MOUNTAIN PROVINCE – Efforts to restore peace between the tribes involved in the killing of the late judge Milner Lammawin hit a snag after the contending parties failed to agree on how the case is to be settled.
Lammawin was killed allegedly by Maducayan tribesmen in Tabuk, Kalinga months after Edwin Lingbawan, a Maducayan native, was shot to death while on their way to Tabuk from Tuguegarao City. One of those on board the vehicle was Tabuk mayor Camilo Lammawin, brother of the late judge. Milner’s wife, Venus, is a memer of the Bontoc tribe.
In the meeting facilitated by the Bontoc Council of Elders at the Anglican Diocesan Center here last May 2, relatives of Venus Lammawin, rebuffed the suggestion of lawyer Basilio Wandag of the Maducayan tribe that the problem be mended through “Pakpakan,” a manner by which the case is to be settled by immediate family members and that no damage is to be demanded by an aggrieved party except for a token heartily offered by the offender. Unlike the bodong system, this mode of settlement does not go through many rituals but the mere exchange of food. Partaking the food offered by an offender implies forgiveness on the part of the aggrieved party. **By angel baybay. Read more...
Lammawin was killed allegedly by Maducayan tribesmen in Tabuk, Kalinga months after Edwin Lingbawan, a Maducayan native, was shot to death while on their way to Tabuk from Tuguegarao City. One of those on board the vehicle was Tabuk mayor Camilo Lammawin, brother of the late judge. Milner’s wife, Venus, is a memer of the Bontoc tribe.
In the meeting facilitated by the Bontoc Council of Elders at the Anglican Diocesan Center here last May 2, relatives of Venus Lammawin, rebuffed the suggestion of lawyer Basilio Wandag of the Maducayan tribe that the problem be mended through “Pakpakan,” a manner by which the case is to be settled by immediate family members and that no damage is to be demanded by an aggrieved party except for a token heartily offered by the offender. Unlike the bodong system, this mode of settlement does not go through many rituals but the mere exchange of food. Partaking the food offered by an offender implies forgiveness on the part of the aggrieved party. **By angel baybay. Read more...
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