Peasant group slams arrest of 8 farmers in Hacienda Luisita.
By Jeannette I. Andrade
Philippine Daily Inquirer
December 23, 2013

MANILA, Philippines—A peasant group denounced on Sunday, the arrest of eight farmers and the bulldozing of their farm lots at Hacienda Luisita allegedly under orders by a company owned by President Aquino’s family in spite of their claims the land was covered under the agrarian reform program.

Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) chair Rafael Mariano said the farmers arrested at 4 p.m. Saturday by Tarlac policemen were Vicente Sambo, Rod Acosta, Eufemia Acosta, Ronald Sakay, Jose Baldiviano and his wife Elsa and Manuel and Mamerto Mandigma.

Mariano said two other women arrested were released four hours later.

He said security guards of the Tarlac Development Corporation (Tadeco) assisted the policemen when the KMP members attempted to stop the leveling of the Barangay (village) Balete farmlands, which they claimed were included in the land distribution program of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR).

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