6 YEARS AFTER MASSACRE, NO LAND DISTRIBUTION, PROSECUTION OF KILLERS
Groups ask Noy: Where’s justice over Luisita row?
By Charlie V. Manalo 11/17/2010Six years after the November 16 Hacienda Luisita massacre in which seven farm workers were slain by a combined police and military force, not even one official has been made accountable or convicted over the incident, civil rights and religious groups said yesterday.
A 40-vehicle protest-caravan from Quezon City to Hacienda Luisita marked the sixth year of the massacre of farmers in the sprawling sugar estate in Tarlac owned by the Cojuangco-Aquino family of President Aquino and highlighted alleged continuing injustice and denial of farmers’ rights to the land.
Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano said that “six years after the massacre, justice remains elusive to the victims of the massacre” and that “demands for genuine agrarian reform continue to fell on deaf ears,” especially under the Aquino administration.
The farm workers decided to hold a picket to bring their plight to the attention of the public and the government and, hopefully, move the conscience of the Cojuangco family. The response was the
was the massacre of Nov. 16, 2004, the Religious Discernment Group Convenors said in a statement..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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