SunStar + May 11, 2021 In some far-flung areas in Mindanao, some legitimate landowners abandoned their vast land because during harvest season their products are harvested by armed men. When they confronted the armed men on why they harvested their products when they are the legitimate and legal owners of the land, the armed men would simply answer, “Yes, this is your land, but the products are ours,” while at the same time pointing their guns at the landowners. If you were the landowners, would you insist and assert your ownership at gunpoint? You can, but you can be killed anytime. So you just keep silent or to avoid trouble just leave the place. Landowners can only assert their ownership if they will also take up arms to fight the armed men taking their products. That is what we call “balance of terror.”