Rizal Mayor Marcelo de la Cruz implements Municipal Ordinance #2005-005 that prohibits land squatting in Rizal town.Sending Demolition crew with police escorts at Barangay San Pascual Rizal Kalinga which resulted to the death of 9 people and wounding of 10 police officers. the gunmen were ordered to surrender but refused and kept firing at the government forces, resulting in sporadic gunbattles that lasted throughout the day.
The squatters dug foxholes and refused to vacate the area, armed with automatic rifles they begun firing at the demolition team in which the police are forced to return fire.
The policemen immediately called on reinforcements from the Kalinga Provincial Police Office and Regional Mobile Group and the Army’s 21st Infantry Battalion.
3 comments:
Squatters
who came from the other side of the mountains claiming that they own the land formed from soil swept by the river...
more officials should take squatting more seriously and should go after them squatters - tribemates, relatives and friends, no matter who they are.
THIS had been a long time problem in Rizal. It is good that the good Mayor Bebot Dela Cruz had been steadfast in his crusade against squatting. What happened was as a result of the lawlessness of the squatters. If these squatters succeed in their claim to the Madrigal estate, what will stop them from claiming the whole of Rizal, predominantly occupied by non Kalingas? We hope that the whole Officialdom of Kalinga, and other concerned GOs/NGOs as well as the people of Rizal extend their support to the younger (new) Mayor dela Cruz in his enherited fight against squatters...
Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!
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