BAGUIO CITY — Senator Gregorio Honasan on Monday said he has asked for a Senate inquiry into the violent dispersal of farmers in Kidapawan, which killed 3 people and injured scores of protestors and policemen, “before the truth gets swallowed up by so many speculations.”
Honasan said the latest popular theory tends to label the farmers’ protest as a Left-wing ploy.
He said investigators and the news media must unearth the facts, or else “we will start saying communists were behind the protests, so now all farmers are communists.”
The senator said he had just signed a proposed resolution seeking the Senate probe, in aid of legislation.
Honasan, vice presidential candidate of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA), spoke at a forum before holding a roundtable meeting with the Baguio media. JE
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