
Our semi-regular Bulletproof Project today takes us to the southern Philippines, specifically the perpetually conflict-addled island of Mindanao. It is there that a family of quasi-Christian cults collectively known as the Tadtad ("Chop Chop") flourish, and occasionally wreak bloody havoc on the unfortunate populace.
The Tadtad remind us a bit of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, in that they've combined Christian doctrine, ancient shamanism, and Fascist radicalism into one awful cocktail...
Published on December 17, 2009 07:00