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The 83 Tinang farmers and their supporters are considering filing counter-charges against the Tarlac police for their alleged violent arrest during a ceremonial cultivation of land or "bungkalan.”
She made the statement two days after more than 90 farmers and their supporters were arrested by the police during a cultivation activity related to a land dispute.
“Deprived farmers are faced with violent reprisal when they assert their rightful claim to land. This exposes CARP as instrumental to landlords while the majority of our farmers remain landless, poor, and hungry."