CBCP, tillers reject referendum By Charlie V. Manalo and Pat C. Santos 07/10/2011

COJUANGCO-AQUINO CLAN MOVING TO ‘SOW DISUNITY’

CBCP, tillers reject referendum

By Charlie V. Manalo and Pat C. Santos 07/10/2011

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) have closed ranks with militant farmers in rejecting the recent Supreme Court (SC) order for the Department of Agrarian Reform to hold a referendum among Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI) farm workers for them to choose between land distribution and staying with the corporate structure on land ownership through the stock distribution option (SDO) of the vast estate the basis of which, called the stock distribution plan (SDP), the Tribunal upheld as illegal.

Farmers groups said the Cojuangco-Aquino clan had given them a preview of the divide and rule tactic to be employed to turn around in their favor the Supreme Court order for a referendum.

The militant peasant groups Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala) and the Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) accused President Aquino and his relatives, the Cojuangcos of Tarlac, for “sowing disunity among farm workers of Hacienda Luisita” saying the divide and rule tactics being employed today are “a portent of things to come” once the Supreme Court-ordered referendum pushes through..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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