Task Force Mapalad said in a press statement it issued that it will seek a review of the role played by landowners in the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program.

This is to determine to what extent they have contributed to its success of failure, the group said. 

TFM president Jose Rodito Angeles said landowners have been calling for a review of CARP and have been playing up the flaws of CARP in order to justify its non-extension after June 2008.

He said they now want a review of what they have done during the past 19 years to see if they have the moral high ground to question CARP, in the press statement also said.

Angeles said the farmers see the landowners' call for CARP review as a mere mask to hide their real intention to completely stop the implementation of CARP.

He also pointed out that the Concerned Landowners of Negros has also been aggressively campaigning for CARP review and against CARP extension with the support of presidential brother-in-law, Rep. Ignacio Arroyo, the statement added.

Once the review of landowners' role in CARP pushes through, he said, they will ask the congressional review committee to summon landowners who have been identified by farmers and farmer-beneficiaries to have been involved in agrarian-related  disputes, the statement further said.*

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