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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Military officials, along with the opposition today, are milking the suicide of Angie Reyes for all its worth, portraying suicide as an honorable and dignified way to die and “save” the country, its institutions and its people from the massive corruption that has enveloped the entire nation.
Shooting himself in the chest, to hit his heart, is now even being compared to the ways of the Japanese Samurai who kills himself for, and with honor.
There is a big difference, however. It is in the culture of the Samurai to commit seppuku, as it also was Japanese culture of army people in Japan during WW ll to commit hara kiri. It is not, however, the Filipino culture and tradition to commit suicide and make this the Filipino’s badge of honor. Why then are the Filipinos being lulled into believing that suicide is not only a heroic act of Reyes, but an honorable and courageous act of saving the nation? Have Filipinos become so amoral that they no longer know what is right from wrong?
Are we to believe that truth about the corruption that exists in the military and no doubt in almost every government department and bureau should now be shelved, simply because a former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff, who could not take the pressure and who refused to cooperate in baring the truth in an inquiry, had decided to take his own life?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110213com2.html
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