Farmer shot dead in Negros Oriental
By Carla Gomez
Visayas Bureau
First Posted 18:32:00 12/04/2008
Filed Under: Murder, Agrarian Reform
BACOLOD CITY, Philippines -- A farmer belonging to the agrarian reform advocacy group Task Force Mapalad was shot and killed on Wednesday night in the estate of former representative Herminio Teves in Sta. Catalina town, Negros Oriental, Heidi Fernandez, TFM spokesperson said.
Arnaldo Hoyohoy, 40, died of a gunshot wound in the cheek as he was being treated at a hospital in Dumaguete City at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, said Fernandez.
Hoyohoy was in front of his house in Barangay (Village) Caranoche, Sta. Catalina at 6:30 p.m. after a still unidentified assailant shot him, Fernandez said.
The bullet hit Hoyohoy's right cheek and exited from his neck, initial reports said. His father Romualdo and brother Alexander brought him to the hospital, said Fernandez.
The victim's father is one of 30 Negros Oriental farmers who were recently installed by the Department of Agrarian Reform in the former Teves estate after 11 years of an arduous legal battle over the 61-hectare property, Fernandez said.
The Supreme Court affirmed in 2004 that the TFM farmers were legitimate beneficiaries of the land under CARP.
Hoyohoy had a wife Lorna and four children.
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