I join fellow Filipinos who are mourning and are crying
for justice for the victims of the Maguindanao (Ampatuan) Massacre.
Last I heard, 57 people are dead. Reportedly, the suspect has already surrendered, but is this enough? Is POWER really worth it? Are lives really that easy to take? Why do people succumb to so much violence? To think that election day is still months away.
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For the benefit of those who are not here in the Philippines,
please take time to read the story here, from Inquirer Dot Net,
and from Roanne's blog.
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I have to confess I am surprised at the amount of turmoil that seems to occur in the Philippines.
I am aware of the unrest / conflict in Mindanao.
I know of the problems problems with Marcos. It goes even further back to the American-Filipino was at the beginning of the last century.
Yet, all the Filipinos I have met are such warm and friendly people that the continued violence in your conountry is a continual surprise to me.
I know your people (at least many who made it to Canada) quite well. My goddaughter is a Canadian born of Filipino parents. I also had a Filipina penpal for a few years (though we lost touch, can't find her anymore - like so many other penpals).
I don't like violence, esp. not used in this form. It's just that I don't get how a human being can do things like that to another human being. But it's true, we're all good at heart, except for a few rotten apples!
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I am pleased with the nice words you've said about my people and my country, thank you!
We're really a happy and good bunch. It just too bad that the evil ones, I'd like to think they're not that many, do their evil deeds like there's no tomorrow that we always make it in the international news.
Screw those few rotten apples.
Mangudadatu said the body of his murdered wife had been horrifyingly mutilated and that his dead sister and aunt had both been pregnant.
“We can’t call him an animal because I have pets and they are tame. No, he is a monster. They are monsters,” Mangudadatu told reporters, referring to Ampatuan Jr. and his gunmen.
“My wife’s private parts were slashed four times, after which they fired a bullet into it,” he added.
“They speared both of her eyes, shot both her breasts, cut off her feet, fired into her mouth. I could not begin to describe the manner by which they treated her.”
The death toll rose from 46 to 57 after 11 more bodies were pulled out of shallow graves on Wednesday, according to police..
This is inhumane!
A long time conflict in mindanao should be stop now.
The killing is surprising. The radar on the suspect is, too. The suspect seems to be guilty of so many things, including having a sinister private army and cheating in previous elections dating back to the Aquino regime which hints at his sense of affiliation. Why is the radar surprising? It's so obvious for the suspect to risk his reputation by ordering the massacre. Those journalists died on duty so they are bound to be reported to have died under the circumstance of being at the mercy of the target's alleged political enemy. This reminds me why the late Ninoy was not at Plaza Miranda when the bombing happened. Sometimes the obvious suspects are also pawns by a sinister third party that intends to be divisive. Last I read, the husband of the slain wife remarked that only death can stop him from filing his own candidacy. Hmmm, why the obsession with death?
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