Luisita workers want DAR to revoke order, call for distribution of land
By Benjamin B. Pulta 01/06/2012Hacienda Luisita farm workers petitioned the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to revoke a 15-year-old land-use conversion order it issued to Hacienda Luisita Inc. and called for the distribution of the lands to farmworkers.
In the petition filed by the Sentro para sa Tunay na Repormang Agraryo (Sentra), counsel for the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala), the farmworkers insisted that the Cojuangcos, President Aquino’s family, violated the terms and conditions of the order and that the 500-hectare lands covered remain undeveloped..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20120106hed3.html
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oo nga ano. dapat yung "converted" land na hindi naman converted talaga ay isama. kung meron pang iba na naipagbili, dapat din isama yun ah.
"“The Cojuangco-Aquinos’ bad practice of duping the farmworkers can be clearly seen in the conversion and sale of the 500-hectare lands without the knowledge and approval of the farmworkers who are the rightful owners of the lands. In fact, the Luisita farmworkers did not get even a single cent from the illegal sale and conversion of the lands,” Ramos said.
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"“It is clear that HLI had no intention of developing or converting the 500 hectares land subject of the DAR conversion order. For instead of ‘developing’ the same pursuant to their undertaking in the application for conversion, it merely caused them to be transferred to other family-owned corporations of the Cojuangcos, LIPCO, Centennary and LRC,” the petition states."
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