CPP: Solidarity with the 8th anniversary of the massacre in Hacienda Luisita

Posted to the CPP Website (Nov 16): Pakikiisa sa ika-8 anibersaryo ng Masaker sa Hacienda Luisita (Solidarity with the 8th anniversary of the massacre in Hacienda Luisita)

[A loosely translated excerpts from the statement follows.  My Tagalog is too rusty to do a verbatim translation]

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) sympathizes with the working peasants and farm workers of Hacienda Luisita today in recognition of the 8th anniversary of the massacre in Hacienda Luisita.  The brutal suppression of the uprising on November 16, 2004, when soldiers indiscriminately fired at thousands of protesters at the gates of the Aquino-Cojuangco manor, remains fresh in peoples' memories. Thirteen were killed in one of the worst chapters in the history of peasant struggle in the Philippines.  The bloody banner for genuine land reform will continue to be presented and waved the farmers and farm workers of Hacienda Luisita.  The rise of reactionary political power in 2010 Benigno Aquino III of the Aquino-Cojuangco family has further strengthened their determination to pursue their struggle. They cry for justice, not only for the victims of the massacre, but also for thousands of farmers and farm workers dispossessed and deprived of the right to land for more than half a century.....

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/pakikiisa-sa-ika-8-anibersaryo-ng-masaker-sa-hacienda-luisita