What would you do when a words of discouraging outcome was given to you? “I left my children in our house and joined the picket, hoping to get rice for my children. But we were given bullets,” a statement by one of the drought-stricken farmer.

A story of a mother of two children, who stand on the senate of comittee crying just this April 7 on how she literally leave her children to their house and joined the farmers’ protest in Kidapawan, North Cotabato in asking for food assistance. Not jsut because of in need but in lacking.

In the hope of getting rice from the government it turned the other way around. It ended in a bloody way where 3 farmers confirmed dead and there were 50 persons who are wounded. She stated that she was warned to go home by the named Leah but she decided to stay. Not expecting that the protest will be as violent as this. The hardest part was when they were given 5 minutes to leave the picket line by North Cotabato Provincial Police Commander P/Supt Alexander Tagum.

She stated, “We pitied our fellow farmers. Why were they doing this to us? After we withdrew, they hit us again and even entered the compound… What we asked for was rice, not bullets. We hope you will listen to us.”