SDO And Farmers' Misery In Luisita

SDO And Farmers' Misery In Luisita

Through the stock distribution option, the essence of land reform has been distorted to benefit landowners-denying the farmers of actual land redistribution.

Published at the IBON website Monday, 16 November 2009

IBON Features - The massacre in Tarlac's Hacienda Luisita five years ago where seven farm workers were felled by government bullets and scores suffered injuries-is a tragic testament to the peasants' continuing plight of landlessness and poverty.

Particularly in Luisita, peasants have for two decades been denied the essence of land reform-genuine land distribution. This, as the Cojuangcos persist in implementing the stock distribution option (SDO) despite justified calls for its revocation.... MORE


Source:  IBON Foundation

URL: http://info.ibon.org/ibon_features.php?id=8