The news that 46 people were found massacred in the southern part of the country last November 23, 2009, was very shocking. Though that place is a known hot spot for violence, I find it so incomprehensible that people would kill just to stop a politician from filing his candidacy. It’s so heartless…inhuman.
The other day, the media reported there were more people found massacred. It now totalled 67. The second massacre had taken place nearby just some minutes after the first one. No one in the convoy was spared…not a man, woman or child.
A Philippine politician was charged with murder on Friday, November 28, after authorities accused him of ordering soldiers, police and other gunmen to kill at least 57 defenseless and innocent people, at least 22 of them women, 27 journalists and 15 motorists who happened to pass the place at the time of the massacre. They said some of those involved in the massacre felt guilty and voluntarily offered information…felt guilty???
I have no words for the unconscionable acts of these murderers. I cannot even think of calling them people. They have no conscience. But this is the reality happening now...and this is just the beginnig of election season.
What can a small voice like mine do? It seems nothing...
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