Militants welcome suspension of demolitions in NCR, but….

April 28, 2012

Militant groups on Saturday welcomed the order by Department of Local and Interior Government Secretary Jesse Robredo to suspend demolitions in Metro Manila, following a violent confrontation that killed one and wounded 39 in Parañaque City last Monday.

But the Metro Manila chapters of Anakbayan and Kabataan party-list groups said that while Robredo’s decision is a “triumph of urban poor dwellers,” it may be too little too late.

“We welcome the DILG‘s decision to suspend all demolitions in Metro Manila. [But] this victory was won through the militant struggle of the urban poor dwellers,” said Kabataan Metro Manila spokesperson Mark Louie Aquino.

He was referring to the struggle especially by the residents of Silverio Compound in Parañaque City last April 23.

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