Legal but unjust compensation
Legal but unjust compensation
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat.com
“Just compensation” when referring to agrarian reform is an oxymoron. All agrarian reform programs of Philippine presidents provide for “just compensation” for landlords whose lands are taken by the government for distribution to farmers. But this does not make it just.
“How could you own that which will outlive you?” Macliing Dulag, a Kalinga tribal chieftain who led the struggle against the building of the Chico River Dam during the 1970s, was once quoted as saying in reply to a demand by an army engineer fo show him the title to the land. Macliing Dulag was killed when soldiers fired at his house on April 24, 1980 .
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