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Dec 10 2007

The long march of the Sumilao farmers

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Twenty-one-old Bajek-jek Merida, daughter of one of the protesters and a farmer herself said it best: “There will be 4,999 pigs living in Sumilao. Are pigs more important than the farmers of Sumilao?”

Indeed, why is their holy land, their ancestral land — prime agricultural land — deemed fit to house pigs, but not the Higaonon people? How could building processing plants be better than letting the rightful owners till their land?

In a time when the memory of 12-year old Mariannet Amper is still painfully fresh in our hearts — a sensitive soul who was driven by poverty to commit suicide — government would rather extinguish any light of hope in the hearts of the Higaonon. Courage flows through the hearts of the Sumilao farmers, and yet government have done nothing but to push them down in the quagmire of despair.

Pigs cannot farm, Bajek-jek Merida raged. Would this government rather drive farmers to extinction? Then they deserve to be called a ‘government for pigs and by pigs’.

Written by Timi Stoop-Alcala · Categorized: Politics · Tagged: agrarian reform, ancestral land, farmers, Higaonon, injustice, march, Sumilao, Sumilao farmers

About Timi Stoop-Alcala

I’m very passionate about content, because I’m passionate about people. Content is just another means to solve problems and elevate people to greater heights. This is what I want my website / blog, and social networks to do for people like you and me. I don’t have all the answers, but I would like to share everything I have and will learn in this quest.

Comments

  1. God says

    December 17, 2007 at 10:46 AM

    That 12-yr old girl was a genius.Life is meaningless.How brilliant of her to have discovered the truth at such a tender age.She has all my respect.You should kill yourself too while you have the chance.I will reward you in heaven.The sooner you do it the more hoes I will give you.And in case you didn’t notice,democracy never works.Its all about power.In a modern capitalistic society,money is everything.I say kill all farmer fags and those idiots who support them.

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  2. God says

    December 17, 2007 at 10:46 AM

    That 12-yr old girl was a genius.Life is meaningless.How brilliant of her to have discovered the truth at such a tender age.She has all my respect.You should kill yourself too while you have the chance.I will reward you in heaven.The sooner you do it the more hoes I will give you.And in case you didn’t notice,democracy never works.Its all about power.In a modern capitalistic society,money is everything.I say kill all farmer fags and those idiots who support them.

    Reply
  3. God says

    December 17, 2007 at 10:46 AM

    That 12-yr old girl was a genius.Life is meaningless.How brilliant of her to have discovered the truth at such a tender age.She has all my respect.You should kill yourself too while you have the chance.I will reward you in heaven.The sooner you do it the more hoes I will give you.And in case you didn’t notice,democracy never works.Its all about power.In a modern capitalistic society,money is everything.I say kill all farmer fags and those idiots who support them.

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