Do these pictures horrify you? The pictures above were the brutal arrays of CPP-NPA’s June 25, 1989 Digos massacre. Thirty-nine churchgoers were killed not excluding children who were also hardheartedly gunned-down. The unfortunate soul beheaded in the middle was one of these devotees’ pastors. Their sin was disturbingly “simple”; they wanted no part of the Communist movement. These corpses went against the forced agnostic belief of the totalitarian Reds.
In 1989, these facets of inhumanity shocked the Philippines and the world. But the swift these victims’ lives were taken the swifter justice and interest passed and got denied. Instead of cold-dump iron cell, Jose Maria Sison- the brain behind the Communist’s horrendous act was treated a king. The government granted his biddings. Luis Jalandoni together with Southern Tagalog Regional Party Committee (STRPC) leader Satur Ocampo was likened to the bible’s “salvation” emissaries. Instead of persecution, the Philippine government bent and knelt to get them in peace negotiations. Other than getting them accountable, they (the so-called men behind the NDF) had been magnified “honorable” during the GRP-NDF talks.
They get to demand for peace, when they are the ones depriving us from it.
Who would not want peace? Is it the innocent civilians who had no capacity to defend themselves in the route of a war, or the wagon of thieves and slaughterers who have the defenseless under their mercy? There is nothing wrong with the resumption of talks on August 26th of this year. However, the demands at stake like the demand to again wipe-clean CPP-NPA criminals like Rafael Baylosis and Randall Echanis of their murders in Inopacan, Leyte like how the Satur’s Digos massacre was closet-locked is nonetheless another unbearable denial of justice.
The victims above and people who up until now bear the scar of CPP-NPA cruelty longs for peace but hopes nothing less than having it with justice served.
NPA Victims’ Friends and Relatives
Digos
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