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MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte announced Tuesday that he was considering submitting the Negros provinces to agrarian reform, citing feudalism in the region that could be solved by distributing land to farmers.
"There are a lot of problems out there and I tell you right now, the problem is really the earth," Duterte told reporters Tuesday night.
"We can not reach a peaceful resolution of this controversy if you do not really stick to feudalism. That's what's going on there. "
Duterte announced the plan more than a month after unknown gunmen killed sugar producers in Sagay City, Western Negros.
The president accused the new Communist People's Army of being responsible for these murders while the National Federation of Sugar Workers believes that the private army of a Negros owner was originally of the attack.
Duterte said that it was necessary to tackle the root cause of the land problem in the impoverished area.
"It's time for landowners to look at the reality of the world. There is a law and sabi ko hindi ito madala nang barrilan. This needs to be solved … The root cause is really long … It's about the issues relating to agrarian reform or the lack of land of so many people that the problems arise, "he said. declared.
"I'm sorry, whether I like it or not, I have to act, because a law states that the only way to respect it is agrarian reform."
Duterte insisted on the need to solve the land problem in the region, because the "communists exploit it" by forcibly occupying unused land.
"Create a federation of monies from the federation of money, then look for vacant land and take over plantations," he said.
Sinabi ko nga yung okupasyon and I warned you that if you do that, I will order the police and the army to expel you physically. And if you do something wrong and you put the lives of my soldiers and police, I told them that you could go ahead and shoot them. "
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