CRIMEmas
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| Dinah S. Ventura |
There’s a chill in the air, and we’re feeling it not because the merry season of parties and gift-giving is here. It’s because we seem to be getting a steady diet of criminal cases — that is, those that involve Sen. Ping Lacson, the Ampatuans and Hubert Webb.
Rather than reflect on the goodness of man this Christmas, some of us are wondering what will become of these unfinished businesses, and probably thinking how sad it is that one senator, some members of a political clan, as well as the son of a former senator are involved in grisly crimes that remain unsolved to this day.
Oh, sure, we have heard the cases tried in court and to a certain extent, in media, but not one of them can truly be closed as yet. The Vizconde massacre case was tried in the 1990s, and a number of young men and a police officer were convicted of the crime. When the millennium turned, the Dacer-Corbito murders came to fore, and as the first decade of the 2000s drew to a close, an even bloodier massacre took place, this time in Mindanao, where over 50 civilians died and a powerful clan was involved.
This December, we suddenly heard “a voice from the unknown” announce: “I will only come out when justice is rightly served or when I’m already dead.” The disappearing former chief of police and current Sen. Ping Lacson, in making known his position (or his continued invisibility), was clearly stressing his innocence in the case of the Dacer-Corbito killings in 2000. And before you could say “boo,” his call for a reinvestigation of the case was supported by fellow senator, Gringo Honasan..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101206com7.html
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