Another farmer-leader killed

11/27/2006 07:20:00 PM

Two weeks after the killing of a leader of a farmers’ group in Cagayan province, another farmer-leader was gunned down in Gonzaga town on Monday. Anthony Licyayo, chair of the Gunglo Dagiti Mannalon iti Cagayan Valley (Kagimungan), was on his way to his farm in Sitio Torkia in Barangay Cabiraoan, Gonzaga, when a lone assailant shot him in the head at about 8:30 a.m., reports from police and local farmers’ groups said. Read more from the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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    Democracy, according to the late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, is "a question of human dignity, [a]nd human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions."

    But exercising political freedom in the Philippines, which purports itself to be a democracy, can lead to death. Since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency of the country in 2001, more than 800 Filipinos murdered in politically-motivated, extra-judicial, targeted killings. Since the 4th quarter of July 2005, one person has been killed every two days. The victims of these brazen acts of violence were all unarmed citizens: lawyers, judges, journalists, medical practitioners, members of cause-oriented groups, priests, church-workers, human rights advocates, laborers and farmers.

    It is widely believed—and the United Nations support this belief—that state security forces are complicit in these crimes.