Maguindanao revisited
| HE SAYS |
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| Aldrin Cardon |
One year is too long a wait.
The Ampatuan massacre will be remembered this month with not much promise that those believed to be responsible in the mass murder of 57 persons, including 34 journalists, will be meted long jail terms, or if they will be deemed guilty at all.
Not even a change in government could seem to assure the families of the victims of a resolution to their liking.
Family patriarch Andal Ampatuan Sr. and his successor to lead the clan, Andal Ampatuan Jr. have been charged with murder along with 196 others, perhaps the most number of suspects in a given crime since the last global war, but they possess so much influence, aside from lots of money, to dictate the course of their defense that a long trial may lead to a whitewash, or even a mistrial that would lead to their acquittal.
Journalists, including this rubbernecker (if I would qualify as one), have been impatient already as we look for clear signals the Ampatuans and their horde would be brought to justice.
But justice works differently than our wants and demands. And as long as justice works, we will wait.
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Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101103com5.html
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