Reds to convene special people’s court to try ‘criminals’ behind massacre

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SAGAY CITY, Negros Occidental – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has dismissed as outright lies the statements of Malacañang claiming that the New People’s Army (NPA) was behind the massacre of nine farm workers last Saturday in Hacienda Nene, in Bulanon here.

The CPP, in a statement, said a special people’s court would be convened to “try the criminals behind the massacre and heed the cry for justice of the peasants and farm workers.”

The statement called as “garbage” the statement of police officials that the NPA was behind the killing to stir the masses.

It said the NPA would never put the people, including the peasants, in harm’s way since the CPP’s armed group was a peasant army meant to wage “people’s war to advance their democratic demand for land reform” as well as to defend the peasants from attacks.

The CPP instead pointed to the landlords who opposed land reform.

“They (landlords) do not want to accede even a square inch of land to the peasants who are merely demanding the right to plant food crops in the small patches of land between or around the vast sugarcane haciendas,” it added.