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Monstrous doings SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 12/16/2009

Wednesday, December 16, 2009


Monstrous doings


SHE SAYS

Dinah S. Ventura
12/16/2009

Ghosts of Maguindanao’s recent heinous past continue to float about us. They are horrible, these ghosts, and ordinary folks who go about each day denying the truth of our shame — whether to protect themselves or their sensibilities — cannot help but cringe away from the sight.

They are not the souls of our murdered countrymen who had gone out one fine day to exercise their rights and serve their purpose in a democracy. Rather, they are those of our country’s murdered spirit — and the perpetrators are the power-hungry ones’ greed and our own collective.... MORE


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