...squatters vs police: the never ending story of clash and violence

I heard a news today that a lady who do not have a land title established a three story building on that area and now she is asking for payment for the damage done. In the first place. She do not have a land title which means that she do not have the right to built a building for that property. All people who establish a lifestyle on that area are struggling for their right that they don't even recognize. They don't have the right to build a house, establishment or residential on that area but still they are insisting for that right. That's the most abusive attitude for those people. the owner or the government let those people live for decades on that area and now that it is being kept by someone who has the legal right. Those people would let themselves killed and wounded for no reason at all. To prevent violence. Move on and make a better life. Accept what the government offers.

Without hesitation i would say that the government is the one to be blame.First you can't control people who want to live in places like Silverio because of poverty we can't blame them. The government should had talked or a meeting to those people living at Silverio for them to know what will be the situation or what will be their future if the houses will be demolished.The government should have planned it before making any decisions.

That is really not their land and squatting in most cases is against the law. If you look at it, the people are to blame because there are the ones that is trying to stop the demolition even if the court has already ordered it and the case they filed lost.

I think both are to blame- since the people know that the land is not theirs but they still choose to start a life there and grow many.. even if how large their number may become the law is still above it all and everything an be demolished.. But i also think they should be given a land to move..

I think until the poverty exist these scenarios in demolition will always be there. I hate to say these but because of poverty more and more people are going to a city like Manila to improve their living condition. Provinces have enough areas to accommodate these people but we all know that most job opportunities are in a wealthy city like manila. The government is also responsible for this, they should provide equal employment opportunity everywhere even in provinces. The government should do something about it. What is the purposes of taxes being collected by the BIR? Large part of it are being corrupted by government officials. If enough funds are to set aside with housing and job opportunities, problems like these will be solved.

The real owner of the land should be the one to be blamed in the first place. Should he had not tolerated these squatters to build their respective houses in that private lot, these problems wouldn't have arised. But the lesson here is that, use of violence on the part of the squatters should have been avoided if they have been helped to relocate and given compensations. They are already there, rooted to that place and of course, it is only natural that they would guard it with all their being since they had their blood and sweat invested in it. And that it is their life.

i don't think we will be seeing any of this stopping/ending soon. there are just those people who does not seem to care about others.. and with this statement i am talking about the people who squat (they are not even considering the fact that the land is not their own and they will of course be booted out of the place.. if you do not own it, its not yours to claim)... and also for the police who has to do their job... they have to make sure they carry out the orders given them, right?

I don't think this cycle is going to end. As long as there are poor people, there would always be squatters. It's not surprising for people to turn out violent if you're going to throw them out from the place they call their home. I won't take sides, the police are just doing what the court are telling them to do and those squatters are just doing what they can to prevent themselves from getting homeless. As long as the government can not come up with better ways to address the housing problem then what recently happened won't be the last.

These people can't understand that they don't own this place in the first place. As per my friend who knows very well about this issue, this land is owned by the government. They put up their houses here despite of the fact that they don't have any rights, and they are claiming that the government cannot just get rid of them and sell this land to others. As per my friend, they're insisting that they have the money to pay for this land, so the government should sell the land to them. I am sorry to say this, but these people are to blame. They have the guts to blame the government for this wherein they are the ones who are illegaly living in that place.

There is no good or bad guy, it depends upon how the situation being explained. People by nature are always fighting for their rights. In that situation I will blame the squatters because there is an order that they must evacuate the place but they did not leave. This things will happen over and over again as long as the problem of squatters and over population cannot be solve.