Now On Its 5th Month

23 April 2010. 


This day marks the fifth month of the massacre in Maguindanao where 57 innocent civilians including women and journalists who are part of the national media were brutally murdered and defiled motivated by what they say a political warfare.

This day as well marks the fifth month that still no justice has been served yet to the victims and their families. Up until this day, the masterminds to this barbaric killing has not been sentenced, even if they were, no kind of lifetime imprisonment would equal their gory deeds.

This is to remind us that this inhumane and nefarious plot to stay in power remains unsolved. For us to say that we are still citizens of the Philippines, the least we can do is to remember the day of 23 November 2009 when lives of innocent people were claimed by man-gods. They play gods in the little town in Maguindanao. Greed has so much crept into their souls that they’ve planned all that. Planning to bury the victims’ bodies so that they are only reported as missing? No one else can orchestrate something as gory and merciless as this but the demon himself. They’ve probably lost their fear of God and their conscience for executing that.  

In the early times, for every wrong done, there compensates a measure of justice. It is as easy and even barbaric in the law of retribution (lex talionis) but in those times, fair justice is given. Whatever you took will be taken from you equally.

That leaves me to thinking which justice system is better. Yes, we have advanced in the system but conviction rates say otherwise. Just recently, the murder charges were dropped against Ampatuan Jr., who is said to be one of the key planners of the murder. (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100418-264901/2-Ampatuans-to-go-free)

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For us, what’s left to do is to yearn for justice, the same justice the victims’ families hope for even when hoping itself becomes frail. It must linger in our minds so we won’t forget this brutality. Let us continue our clamor for justice to ensure it is given to the victims. By so doing, we continue the fight against impunity that only deepens in our ever rotting culture.