Special Report: Hacienda Luisita Massacre Victims Crying For Justice – Want PNO'y Jailed [VIDEO]

The incident on January 22, 1987, better known as the ‘Mendiola massacre‘ and ‘the Hacienda Luisita massacre’ on November 16, 2004, were considered as two of the most tragic killing in Philippine history. The horrific incidents also represent the darker side of the Aquino legacy. Now, the victims are crying for justice, demanding ‘Pinoy’ behind bars.

It’s been 14 years since the manslaughter but no justice was served for the deaths of seven people in a clash between striking workers of Hacienda Luisita and policemen and soldiers.

On November 16, 2004, striking farmworkers, demanding the turnover of the land to them, were violently dispersed by combined PNP-AFP forces. As the strikers and their supporters resisted the teargas shells and water cannons, successive gunshots rang out. As a result, seven farmworkers were killed, 121 were injured (32 had gunshot wounds), including 11 children and 4 elderly men, Philstar reported.

In the succeeding weeks, eight supporters of the strike were killed: Bishop Alberto Ramento, former supreme bishop of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente; Fr. William Tadena, also of the IFI; Tarlac City Councilor Abel Ladera; Ric Ramos, president of the Central Azucarera de Tarlac Labor Union; and four worker-community leaders. These murders have not been satisfactorily resolved to this day.

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Though the Supreme Court on April 24, 2012 finally reigned the 4,915 hectares, (originally 6,000-plus hectares) to be distributed to 6,296 farmworker-beneficiaries. The militant farmworkers group AMBALA has protested the manner of distribution via tambiolo (lottery drum) raffle implemented by the Department of Agrarian Reform.

Additionally, AMBALA rejects the condition that each beneficiary pays for the land at the 1989 price level — over 30 years — before gaining ownership of just 6,600 square meters. Because the Cojuangcos had benefited from the land for 47 years, when it should have been owned by the farmworkers, AMBALA avers, no payment should be required anymore.

Even if the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled in favor of the farmworkers, today the Cojuangcos continue to question a DAR ruling to distribute some 500 hectares of HLI”s prime land and have driven out the farmers tilling parts of the land.

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