Murder of Peasant Leader Elicits Condemnation of Gov�t, CARP

DAVAO CITY � The assassination on Monday of a peasant leader in Panabo demonstrates once again the campaign of repression against agrarian-reform activists and reformists, cause-oriented and human-rights groups said on Wednesday.

Enrico Cabanit, secretary-general of the Pambansang Ugnayan ng mga Nagsasariling Lokal na Organisasyon sa Kanayunan (Unorka), a peasant organization that has been campaigning for agrarian-reform in Davao del Norte, was gunned down on April 24 at a public market.

His daughter, Daffodil, was in critical condition after she, too, was shot by the bonnet-wearing assassin.

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2 Comments to “Murder of Peasant Leader Elicits Condemnation of Gov�t, CARP”

1. Promdi » A campaign of terror says:

   April 29, 2006 at 9:37 pm

   [...] This month alone, four peasant leaders have been assassinated. The other day, a labor leader in Cavite was nearly killed. That shooting followed the murders the day before of two Bayan Muna people in Albay. [...]
2. Davao Today -- News, commentary, analysis, reports from Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines says:

   January 26, 2007 at 8:42 am

   [...] Banana workers in Malalag, Davao del Sur, are reported to have forcibly occupy a Lapanday plantation over a land dispute. The workers said the land had been awarded to them under the agrarian reform program. Some violence had been reported as well. (Click here to read a davaotoday.com report on the state of agrarian reform in the region.) Mayor Rodrigo Duterte continues his tirade against the Americans. In this report, he mocked the Balikatan exercises scheduled in Sulu in February, calling it “just a ploy.” And speaking of Sulu, Karen Hughes, the US’s assistant secretary of state in charge mainly of prettifying American image abroad, was reportedly mobbed in her visit there yesterday. [...]