Dalawang ampatuan pinawalang sala sa kasong murder
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PINAGBIBITIW sa tungkulin ng isang militanteng Kongresista si acting Department of Justice(DOJ) Sec.
Alberto Agra, dahil sa kabiguan umano ng ahensya na mabigyan ng hustisya ang may 57 katao na brutal na
pinatay sa Ampatuan, Maguinadanao, kabilang na ang may 31 mamahayag.
Dismayado si anakpawis Rep. Joel Maglunsod sa naging kautusan ng DOJ na ibasura ang kasong murder
kina suspended Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan at pinsan nitong si
Mamasapano Mayor Akmad Ampatuan na pangunahing sangkot sa brutal na pagpatay sa 31 mamahayag.
Pinapakita lamang umano ng DOJ na hindi makakamtan ng mga pamilya ng biktima ng Ampatuan Massacre
ang tunay na hustisya, hangga’t pinakikialaman umano ng pamahalaan ang kaso.
“nakakadismaya yong ginagawa ng DOJ na pinababa o inalis ang dalawang Ampatuan sa murder case,
nagpapakita lang na hindi talaga makakamit ang tunay na hustisya sa mga biktima ng maguindanao o
ampatuan massacre,” ani Maglunsod.
Dahil dito, nanawagan ang Kongresista kay Acting Sec. Agra, na iwan na ang ahensya at ipaubaya na
lamang sa iba ang posisyon na masnakakaalam sa kung paano mabibigyan ng hustisya ang biktima ng
Ampatuan Massacre.
“sa ginagawa niya dapat lang(na magbitiw),” dagdag pa ni Maglunsod, “isama na si PGMA (Pangulong
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) dahil hindi naman gagawin yon pag walang basbas from malakanyang.”
Iaapila naman ni Atty. Harry Roque, abogado ng mga biktima ng Ampatuan Massacre ang naging desisyon
ng DOJ sa court of appeal. Naniniwala naman ang abogado na walang pag-asa na makamtan ang hustisya
ng mga biktima sa ilalim ng pamumuno ng kasalukuyang administrasyon.
“Jutice for the victims under Mrs. Arroyo’s administration is hopeless. While Justice Secretary Alberto Agra is
the alter-ego of the President, it’s his job to give justice to the victims, and not cover up the crime," ani Atty.
Roque sa isang panayam sa radyo.(JOMA)
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Reminiscent of 2004 Hacienda Luisita massacre LP’S AQUINO YET AGAIN ECHOES THE
MILITARY TUNE – MAZA
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Liberal Party standard bearer Noynoy Aquino is once again adopting the very tune the military and its
Commander-in-Chief – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo – use for their demolition project against
progressive individuals and organizations.
This was the statement of Makabayan-Nacionalista senatorial candidate Liza Maza on Senator Aquino’s
spokesperson Edwin Lacierda's latest statement accusing Nacionalista Party as pro-communist and
slamming Col. Ariel Querubin’s alliance with pro-communist Manny Villar.
“It echoes the tune used by the military as justification for all their human rights violations and atrocities; that
the civilians they have abducted, tortured and killed, including children, are either communists or communist
sympathizers,” Maza said.
Maza pointed out that this reminded her of the Hacienda Luisita Massacre.
“This was the very same line applied by Senator Aquino during the Hacienda Luisita Massacre to justify the
brutal dispersal of plantation workers who were only asking for better working conditions, resulting in the
murder of fourteen people and injury of hundreds of others,” Maza said.
Maza said that Aquino actively defended his family’s interest in the 6,400-hectare plantation estate in Tarlac,
and supported the management of Hacienda Luisita and Central Azucarera de Tarlac’s position that the use
of more than a thousand armed soldiers was “a necessary and a legitimate exercise of state power” that
worked against an “illegal, communist-inspired activity”.
The protesters were pushing for fairer wages (at that time pegged at P9.50/week), increased benefits and
implementation of the land reform program. (joma)
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