FARMERS' PLIGHT. Peasant organization, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) Southern Mindanao rally infront of the Department of Agrarian Reform office in Tagum City on January 22, 2017. They call for justice for all farmer activists killed under the Duterte administration in time for the 31st anniversary of Mendiola massacre. (Bags Castillo / Kilab Multimedia)
Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) condemned President Rodrigo Duterte after he ordered state forces to arrest andshoot farmers’ groups who will stage their occupy activities on government and private lands. His statement, followed the massacre of 9 sugar farmers who were staging an occupy activity in Hacienda Nene of Sagay City, Negros Occidental.