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February 17, 2009
WHY WERE FARMERS VIOLENTLY DISPERSED
DURING PEACEFUL RALLY ON MENDIOLA?
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban) today assailed Malacañang for ordering law enforcers to violently disperse farmers who were peacefully rallying on Mendiola street instead of allowing them to air their legitimate grievances directly before President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Pimentel said some 500 landless farmers from Negros Oriental, Negros Occidental, Leyte and Iloilo staged a protest rally on Mendiola, the gateway to the Palace, on Thursday to press for the enactment of a new law that will address the inadequacies of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) and to ask for the redistribution of the Arroyo landholdings in Negros Occidental.
For more on the press release, please visit: http://senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0217_pimentel1.asp
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