Primarily for neutralizing the local communist insurgency, erstwhile 302nd Brigade Commander Cesar Yano has been promoted to the rank of brigadier general and is now designated as Chief Office for Legislative Affairs Armed Forces of the Philippines.
Listed as among his accomplishments during his stint here in Negros Oriental are: increasing people’s confidence in the military by imposing the highest standard of discipline among soldiers to avoid human rights abuses; assisted the Department of Agrarian Reform in the peaceful settlement of CARP-related issues; pursued peace agreement between the GRP and RPAABB through regular consultations alongside the implementation of KBP projects; increasing the sense of security among residents of the province by conducting massive operations that kept the insurgents on the run; beyond fighting his command also boosted the organic farming program of the provincial government by training CAFGU members who are based in the remote communities and being the lead sponsor in seminars involving local government units, youth and other sectors designed to erode the influence of the communist movement particularly in the hinterlands barangays.
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We keep on asking why the military is not winning the insurgency problem. This is probably the reason why? You take a look at the army general’s resume and you’ll notice that he has been assisting the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) in the “peaceful settlement” of CARP related issues. Why is this so? How come the military is actively involved in matters of civilian affairs?
In plain English, this could only mean that this military man is into the preservation of the status quo - landlord, to his land and the tenant, back to the farm. The military after all these years is still at it, that of preventing deserving farmer recipients to possess their allocated pieces of land as mandated by law.
That’s probably where the phrase “peaceful settlement” for the military comes in. It is not always peaceful when the DAR wants to implement the CARP. And when they say implement, do not be mislead because most of the times, it always involved its non-implementation. This is because these unscrupulous big time land-owners always find ways to prevent its implementation, thus the non-implementation.
This is where the army comes in, allegedly to keep the peace among the irate and betrayed farmers. If you take a minute pause, you will observe that there are Army detachments and PNP mobile stations near big time sugar cane plantations, near large tracts of mango plantations and also in massive prawn farms. You will realized that these armed personnel are not there for the community’s security but they are there acting as armed security units for these big time businesses.
Now what happens if you are an ordinary peaceful farmer minding your own business and is suddenly ousted out of your land because of CARP? What will you do? You knowing that the DAR will be bringing in these military goons to implement the law?
I am sure that you will not be praising the general of his accomplishments but will instead be thinking how you can get justice from this inequality and oppression rammed on your face by the government!
And you think that the military oppression in the movie Avatar is only happening in the planet of Na’vi?
Think again!
seems like there is a twist here.
the farmer is the beneficiary of the CARP. the landowners are the ones that do not want their land to be distributed to the farmers. so how come “an ordinary peaceful farmer minding your own business and is suddenly ousted out of your land”?
is it not the the military should be there to protect the farmers from the harassment of the land owners?
on the other hand, there are also there, because many would be ‘farmers” or CARP beneficiaries should not be part of the real beneficiaries.
many are just riding on the plight of the actual farmers who have fought to own the land the till.
Sorry, there is no twist but a mistaken deletion of some paragraphs. Here goes the 5th paragraphs…
Unfortunately, the lawmakers who crafted this CARP law are themselves big time land-owners. They then cleverly drafted this law to make it appear that there will be an agrarian reform for the landless.
What happened was that the whole country was duped. There never was an intent to distribute agricultural land holdings as what was expected. What happened instead is that our politicians who are big time land-owners protected their ownerships by placing loopholes into this law.
This is why before this law was passed, they already call it CRAP, its right appropriate spelling, instead of CARP. This is so because they already know that it will only be implemented to the poor and small time land-owners.
That is why there were lot of exemptions, thus the exclusions of sugar cane plantations, rice lands and prawn farms, including those huge tracts of land owned by multi-national corporations like the DOLE and del MONTE in Mindanao.
tagajawa-you’re absolutely right…agree jud ko sa imo.
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