This is the sad truth.
One of the legacy attached to the former President Corazon Aquino
is the Agrarian Reform Program, wherein in simple terms it was the giving of
lands from the hacienda owners to the landless farmer.
It was a noble idea and intention, but in its operation, President
Cory decided to exclude the crown jewel of the family – Hacienda Luisita in
Tarlac.
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President Rodrigo roa Duterte in his speech during the 31st anniversary celebration of the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) at the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) main office in Quezon City,
calls the act of the former President as “the greatest aberration” done
to farmer-beneficiaries.”
The Chief executive said, he has “nothing against” the Aquino
family, including the late President Corazon Aquino and her son, President
Benigno Aquino III, he said farmer-beneficiaries should have been awarded
portions of the land in Nueva Ecija.
“I’d like to state very clearly that I have nothing against the
Aquino family. Yung dalawang presidente, pati
ang pamilya (The two Presidents and
the family). I’d like to put it on record that for the first two Aquino
presidents, sumuporta po kami, ang pamilya
namin sa Davao (our family in
Davao supported them) because we believed in Corazon Aquino and I happen also
to just…the best that was available at that time,” Duterte said.
“Pero (But) the greatest aberration, if I look back in time…alam mo, kung ako naman siguro ang naging malapit lang naman
makapag bulong (you know, if I could
only suggest), to make the suggestion na (that) will not irritate yung sinasabihan ko…alam mo yung (the person I’m telling it to, you know) the greatest
aberration sa (in) land reform was the Philippines was declared…the whole
of the country.. as a land reform program area pero tinanggal nila ang Doña Luisita (but they excluded Dona Luisita,” he said.
The Hacienda Lusitia Massacre
President Duterte
recalled the Hacienda Luisita massacre on November 6, 2004, where union farmers
and activists launched a strike pushing for land reform but were violently
dispersed by police and soldiers in Mendiola, Manila.
“Far and in
between the years that it was fighting…I mean the tenants, marami
ho ang namatay (there were
a lot who died). A lot of people died…invested blood, just to realize, until
late today, yung mga lupa na dapat sa kanila(the land that should have
been theirs),” Duterte said.
Department of Agrarian
Reform Secretary John Castriciones earlier bared that his agency will be distributing
the remaining portions of the land in Hacienda Luisita to farmer-beneficiaries
in Tarlac.
In 2012, the
Supreme Court ordered the distribution of Hacienda Luisita's 4,915-hectare
agriculture lands to farmer-beneficiaries.
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