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Monday, November 24, 2003
68 FBs barred from agri land; Army, PNP alert v. bloodshed
* The farmers are backed up by the Task Force Mapalad, a non-government unit which has been helping the FBs claim the land subjected to Carp
THE Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Kabankalan City issued a temporary restraining order for 68 farmer beneficiaries not to harvest, occupy and plant within the 168-hectare land in Hda. Purisima, Barangay Udyong, Moises Padilla.
The agricultural land is owned by Ramon Ruffy, who is currently residing in the United States.
Police said the farmer beneficiaries claimed they owned the land through the government's Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (Carp) but none of them were awarded a Certificate of Land Ownership Award from the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).
The TRO was issued by Judge Reynaldo Alon of the RTC Kabankalan prohibiting the entry of the FBs in the property.
Alon also ordered the deployment of police and military in the area to maintain peace and order.
Reports said the farmers were backed up by the Task Force Mapalad, a non-government unit, which has been helping the FBs claim the land subjected to Carp.
Some members of the Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office and troopers of the 11th Infantry Battalion have been deployed in the area to prevent bloodshed from both the anti and pro-management FBs.
Several agrarian reform-related violence have already occurred in the past. Some of them even resulted to deaths of farmer-beneficiaries. CCD
(November 24, 2003 issue)
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