"Until our right to self-determination is not recognized, the struggle will not end. Even if it means the sacrifice of our lives to achieve freedom, then so be it!"

- PANGAT RAFAEL MARKUS BANGIT-

(1959-2006)

Pangat (peacepact holder) Rafael Markus "Makoy" Bangit was a member of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance Regional Council. He was the coordinator of the Elders Desk of the CPA, and the Binodngan Pongors Organization, a federation of Cordillera tribal elders affiliated with the CPA. He was the Bayan Muna-Kalinga vice chairperson at the time of his death. Markus was a bodong/peacepact holder of his tribe, the Malbong tribe in Tomiangan, Tabuk, Kalinga, with the Dangtalan tribe in Pasil municipality of the same province. He is survived by his wife, and their four children. He was laid to rest in his home village of Tomiangan, Dupag, Tabuk, on June 15, 2006.

Markus during the unveiling of a marker for Cordillera martyr Daniel Ngayaan on April 22, 2005 in Cagaluan, Pasil, Kalinga.

Pangat (Tribal Leader) Rafael Markus Bangit, 47, from Tomiangan, Kalinga, was violently killed by unidentified men on the evening of June 8, in a stopover at Brgy. San Isidro, Echague, Isabela province. He was en route to Baguio City with his eldest son. Bangit is a bodong holder between the Malbong tribe in Tomiangan, Tabuk and the Dangtalan tribe in Pasil. Another bystander, Gloria Casuga, was killed in the shooting.

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