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                    [Title] => Hda. Luisita massacre: No justice after 10 years
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Tomorrow, Nov. 16, marks 10 years since the Hacienda Luisita Massacre happened at the controversial landed estate in Tarlac “owned” by the family of President Aquino.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133567 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804785 [AuthorName] => Satur C. Ocampo [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 785481 [Title] => Luisita tillers want military out [Summary] =>

Three groups of farmers started yesterday a signature campaign demanding that President Aquino, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), immediately pull out soldiers from Hacienda Luisita, in which his family has a “vested interest.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-03-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804849 [AuthorName] => Ding Cervantes [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 708517 [Title] => Tarlac City council opposes SDO at Hacienda Luisita [Summary] =>

The 12-member council of Tarlac City has come out with a resolution, saying that the recent Supreme Court’s order for a referendum on stock distribution option (SDO) among farmfolk “will only obfuscate the real objective of land reform.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-07-22 14:48:39 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1660422 [AuthorName] => Punto Central Luzon [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181536 [Title] => AFP Nolcom clarifies SOT role in Tarlac [Summary] => CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac — The spokesman of the Armed Forces Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) based in this military camp has vehemently denied that the Special Operations Teams (SOT) they have dispatched to nine villages of Tarlac City were setting up vigilante groups.

Lt. Col. Preme Monta, head of Nolcom’s public information office, said that the SOTs are actually "non-combat teams" composed of "specially-trained soldiers for civil-military operations" deployed to implement President Arroyo’s Kapit-bisig Laban sa Kahirapan (Kalahi) program.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 181283 [Title] => AFP-vigilante ties probed [Summary] => TARLAC CITY — A local official here has demanded the Armed Forces explain before the city council the presence of Special Operations Team (SOT) soldiers who are allegedly setting up paramilitary groups in at least nine villages of the city.

In a privilege speech, city councilor Abel Ladera, chair of the council’s committee on peace and order and police matters, said that the military SOTs are actually organizing "vigilante units", allegedly under the guise of implementing the government’s Kabalikat Laban sa Kahirapan (Kalahi) program.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1168087 [AuthorName] => Benjie Villa [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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