Defending farmers

The Commission on Human Rights and various organizations demand the dropping of charges of malicious mischief and illegal assembly against 83 farmers of Hacienda Tinang and land reform advocates who held a ‘bungkalan’ (cultivation ) activity on June 9 in Brgy. Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac. [Inset] Agrarian Reform Secretary Bernie Cruz appealed to farmers to wait for the validated report, showing the official lists of qualified agrarian reform beneficiaries.