By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing
Rome, Italy 18.09.2013
The
Migrant workers in Rome condemn in strongest words the arrest of former political prisoner and cultural
worker Ericson Acosta and 11 other delegates to a Hacienda Luisita fact-finding
mission violently arrested by the Philippine National Police (PNP) Tarlac early
today and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
The
arrest is a desperate move of the Cojuanco-Aquino family who mobilized the
repressive forces of the police and military to terrorize and inflict violence
on land reform advocates and famers.to maintain its illegal and contested
ownership of the more than 6000-hectare Hacienda Luisita.
Hacienda
Luisita has historically been the economic base upon which the Cojuanco-Aquino
built and maintained its political power. With the Supreme Court decision
ordering the distribution of this vast land to the farm-workers, the Conjuanco-Aquino
family, through no less than President Benigno Aquino III, continues to wield
its political power to enforce fascism against the farm-workers and advocates
of genuine land reform advocates.
This is a clear indication that
Human Rights has no meaning to this regime of big landlods. They would not stop
anything to perpetualize their hold on the land now ordered by the law to be
distributed to the farm workers of Hacienda Luisita.
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