Across the world, farmers who organise for land reform are targetted by landowners, and their thugs. As the Asian Human Rights Commission notes:

a leader of a group of farmers seeking land reform was wounded in a shooting at 6pm on 30 October 2006. The attack on Ronald Ocson (41), president of the Asao Farmers and Residents Association (AFRA), took place almost three weeks after he and his fellow villagers were also violently allegedly attacked by armed goons of an influential landlord in Barangay (village) Lawis, Balasan, Iloilo.

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Posted on 27 November, 2006 - 18:05