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Hugpong sa Mag-uumang Bol-anon
KIilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas
(HUMABOL- KMP)
181 E.K. Inting St., Mansasa District, Tagbilaran city
News release
October 19 , 2007
Anti-CARP extension, anti-dam and anti-fascism
protest rally in Bohol
JUSTICE is their cry against corruption, waste of public funds and
political killings.
More than 500 peasants and members of other sectors under HUMABOL and
BAYAN member organizations successfully held
a protest-rally today to air their opposition to the planned CARP
extension of the Arroyo administration. This was held, as part of the
nationally coordinated protest action and was also in part in
commemoration of PD 27 (Marcos land reform) and World Food (less) day.
The protest-march started at the Cogon Round Church at 1:30 in the
afternoon. The protest rally was held for 5 minutes in front of the
provincial capitol and was continued in the Tagbilaran Agora Square until
5:00 in the afternoon.
CARP related land problems, many questionable dam projects in the province
and military repressions and psywar threats were the main issues addressed
by the different speakers.
The demand for justice on the anomalous dam projects in the island of
Bohol and government anomalies affecting the peasantry were
repeatedly echoed during the rally. The continuing political killings and
the repression against the
peasantry in the form of militarization in the rural areas of the province
through the Re-engineered Special Operations Team of 79th IB and 302nd Bge
of Phil. Army under Oplan Bantay Laya were angrily denounced by the
peasant leaders. Fisherfolks aired their opposition to the implementation
of fisheries code of 1998 (RA 8550) and the planned oil exploration and
extraction in the Visayan Sea.
The youth and women aired their support and unity against CARP extension,
repression and political killings and demanded the ouster of the corrupt
and fascist US-GMA administration. Genuine agrarian reform is the
alternative that the militant peasantry is pushing. In the streets or in
the landlord- dominated house of congress, the genuine agrarian reform
program shall be pushed militantly. The new program should genuinely be
able to solve the issue of landlessness and develop the agrarian sector
for the good of the small farmers and push for national industrialization
in the country.
Reference:
Ruben Sobior
Chairperson
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