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Nov. 1 - 21, 2004
Truck attacks force Luisita mill closure anew
HACIENDA LUISITA — The “violent and destructive” actions being carried out by alleged “troublemakers” among the ranks of protesters here has forced Luzon’s biggest sugar mill to shutdown anew its operations Tuesday morning, after these were briefly resumed around noontime last Monday.
The management of the Hacienda Luisita, Inc. (HLI) and the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) said that most of the sugarcane planters in Tarlac, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija and Pangasinan, and those elsewhere in Central and Northern Luzon, have expressed fear of more losses after some of the protesters who locked out the refinery here during the weekend turned to “guerilla-style” harassments.
The milling operations here were first shutdown around noontime last Saturday after more than 20 members of the CAT Labor Union (CATLU) manning the boiler division walked out of their posts and barricade the factory’s Gate 2. Without the steam from the boiler, the refinery could not produce sugar.
Members of the United Luisita Workers’ Union (ULWU) then simultaneously blocked the factory’s Gate 1.
According to management officials, shortly after the mill’s operations were resumed last Monday, a number of trucks loaded with newly-cut sugarcane sticks being transported to the sugar refinery here were waylaid by some of the protesters and punctured the vehicles’ tires with pointed objects.
They said that even during the height of the mass actions last Saturday and Sunday, the tires of sugarcane trucks that were stranded along the road leading to the refinery were similarly deflated.
Because of this, sugarcane planters and owners of the trucks have decided to instead bring their harvests to the Sweet Crystals Integrated Sugar Mills Corp., a small refinery located in Barangay Planas in Porac town, Pampanga.
Management said that the affected sugarcane planters fear that the “troublemakers” may set some of the trucks on fire.
Related to this, some protesters backed by activists setup a “checkpoint” along a portion of this estate’s main road in Barangay Balete, where some factory employees intending to go to work were being turned away.
Management has claimed that majority of the CATLU members wanted to report for work, even as they were demanding from their president, Ricardo Ramos, clarification on their group’s stand on the mass actions.
An hour before the start of the mass actions last Saturday – which was reinforced by militants from the radical groups Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Nagkakaisang Manggagawa ng Tarlac (NMT), Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Tarlac (NMT), League of Filipino Students and Anakbayan – some 20 hectares of sugarcane field in Barangay Murcia in Concepcion town, which is also within this sprawling estate, were set on fire by armed men suspected of being guerillas of the communist-led New People’s Army (NPA).
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