Farmers Demand New DOJ Probe of Mendiola Massacre, SC Action on Luisita Case
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — Exhausting all available avenues to seek justice.
This is what seems to be the game plan of farmers groups as their leaders submitted Friday two letters of appeal to the Supreme Court and the Department of Justice on separate agrarian conflict cases.
To the Supreme Court, they sent a letter addressed to Chief Justice Renato Corona appealing for the speedy resolution of the Hacienda Luisita case. To the Justice department, it was a letter to secretary Leila de Lima seeking the reopening of the 24-year-old Mendiola Massacre case.
Leaders of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and its regional formations, Alyansa ng mga Manggagagawa sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) , Kasama-TK, Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Uma) and Alyansa ng mga Magsasaka sa Gitnang Luzon (AMGL) signed the two letters.
Farmers troop to the Supreme Court and the justice department. (Photo by Ina Alleco R. Silverio / bulatlat.com)
“The letters were complementary to the several urgent motions for the immediate resolution of the case filed by our lawyer, Jobert Ilarde-Pahilga. To these days, all our letters have been left unanswered. In the meantime, it has been more than five months since the SC welcomed oral arguments to clarify matters pertinent to the SDO. Laymen as we are, we see that there are no more issues left to be controverted to prevent the SC from issuing a decision,” they said..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat
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