THE six-member Senate minority bloc called for an immediate Senate investigation into the killings of nine sugarcane farmers in Sagay City, Negros Occidental not only to bring to justice the real masterminds but also to address the pitiful plight of ordinary farmers.

In filing Senate Resolution 929, Minority Leader Franklin M. Drilon and Senators Leila M. de Lima, Paolo Benigno “Bam” Aquino 4th, Risa Hontiveros, Francis Pangilinan, Antonio Trillanes 4th said the massacre that included two minors and four women should prompt the government to take a hard look at the decades-old failure of the government’s agrarian reform program.

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