A Cry For Justice

In as much as I themed last month's blogs about the essence of life, it is appropriate then to include this current blog about the recent heinous killings in the Muslim dominated province in the southern part of my beloved country.

It was reported that there were 59 people who were brutally shot, massacred, and burried along with the vehicles they were riding. They were brought to a very remote place where they were brutally shot and burried in a shallow grave that was been dug up days prior this ominous crime was committed. Even some women were degradingly molested and raped without mercy.

Among this people were 25 independent journalists who were covering the convoy of a well respected family of the vice-mayor in Buluan, Maguindanao. He sent his wife to the capital to file his application for candidacy as the province's governor for the 2010 National Elections against the incumbent governor from the Ampatuan clan who reign the province for a very long time and was a political ally of the current president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

I was supposed to evaluate my blogs for the month of November, but it was been a week already as I am watching and waiting for the developments about this horrifying news from my country. So I decided to just postpone my evaluation as I scribble all my opinions and angry sentiments about this sad events.

I just don't know what kind of evil person had resorted to commit this brutal and heinous crime. A crime that I couldn't even fathom and imagine that will happen and witnessed from the television and YouTube streams. I don't know what kind of motivation had provoked these perpetrators to do such terrible abuse of human rights. It was very heart-wrenching to see the outcome and consequences of their terrible actions.

Now, the people of my nation was in so much pain as they mourn the hapless experience of those helpless men and women of the brutal massacre. It was an awakening against the obvious abuse of power by the political dynasty in the southern part of the Philippines wherein they regard power as a means to render them immune against the comeuppance of their terroristic actions.

But God always works in mysterious ways. It only suggests that whatever evil you have caused to your fellows it will be revealed eventually and will come out to light. Thanks to the wonders of technology!

Haven't the wife of the political candidate who was supposed to submit his candidacy papers called him that a bunch of armies had barricaded and blocked their way while on the way to the capital, the incident shouldn't have been revealed and known to the public and was probably done with finesse and totally forgotten.

The candidate was been alerted and called the authorities immediately to head to the unknown location. It took them several hours to locate the place and it was already too late. The victims were already all brutally murdered and were lifeless. But at least, the heinous crime was been made known, and was been covered nationally and globally, which also alerted the whole nation and the whole people.

But the question is: "Who will be blamed for this brutal killings?" The authorities had already detained the alleged mastermind of this horrific acts but there is not enough evidence to really bury and accuse him for the crime.

The process of justice in my country was so slow and the people who participated in the crime was not yet fully caught and detected. It will turn out that they can still have time to escape and not face the acts that they committed if the process of law was at this turtle pace.

I hope that justice will be granted for those helpless victims (the candidate's families and the independent journalists) and their immediate families. And that the government will have to work hand-in-hand with the authorities to catch the exact perpetrators while it is still early.

And that justice will be committed fairly so that there will be closure for all the people who got affected and effected by the incident especially the whole nation that was mourning for this brutal killings that was already etched in the country's history, as well as the whole world, as the most heinous that had happened in the country.

My prayers to all the families of the Mangudadatu's and the independent journalists and civilians who were accidentally got involved with this extreme political rivalry and abuse of power. I hope that the people who did this had realized what they have done to the families of the victims, to the nation, and to the whole world.

I know that they can wash theirselves off with what they have done and caused, purpurting havoc and wrenching our hearts, but they cannot escape the wrath of the Almighty when they leave this earth. I know God will always work at the right place and time and that justice will be granted eventually though how long the process of justice will be.

I was so angry and mad about what had happened but all I can do is to pray fervently that everything will be processed fairly and rightfully for the justice of all the victims. So help me God.