June 8, 2006. Four bullets took the life of Rafael Markus Bangit in Echague, Isabela. He was on his way to Baguio City to enroll his eldest son in college. At the time of his death, he was a regional council member of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance, headings its elders desk, and was the regional coordinator and spokesperson of the Binodngan Peoples Organisation. He was a father, a husband. He was a respected elder-leader (pangat) of the Malbong tribe in Tomiangan, Kalinga.