HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac City: Militant-backed farmers groups have “occupied” a piece of land here under the control of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (RCBC) that had bought it from the Cojuangco family.

At a gathering called “Bungkalan” or land cultivation, the farmers groups held a mass action to mark the 5th anniversary of the historic Supreme Court’s 2012 decision that ordered the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to give 4,500 hectares of land to over 6,200 farmworkers in the sugar estate owned by the family of late former President Corazon Cojaungco-Aquino.

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