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Newly-built memorial dedicated to massacre victims

DIGOS CITY, June 30 (PIA) – A memorial was recently built in honor and in memory of the 39 Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe members who were massacred by the communist rebels 32 years ago in a hinterland cultural community in Sitio Rano, Barangay Binaton, this city.   The 32nd anniversary of the Rano massacre was remembered with the unveiling and inauguration of the Rano Memorial situated at Rimpong Tribal Village in Brgy. Binaton.   Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) has led other national and local government officials in commemorating the tragedy and in condoling with the survivors and families of the victims.   Monteagudo dedicated the newly-inaugurated Rano Memorial to the Bagobo-Tagabawa tribe who lost loved ones in the horrendous massacre which happened on June 25, 1989.     “This memorial is part of teaching our people, especially the young, about what happened to our Bagobo-Tagabawa people in 1989… This place is a tribute to the