Political Killings on the rise

[lalakingbisdak]

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For me, they kill their own members and put the blame to the military so they could gain support from the people. Ana lang siguro ka simple.

[patsadahon]

In the bad old days of Haiti’s dreaded dictator, voodoo-practitioner Papa Doc Duvalier, citizens cowered in fear each time they would hear the rumble of several vehicles screeching to a halt in their dusty streets. Likelier than not, the vehicles carried armed militias out to abduct "enemies" of the regime. These enemies were almost always tortured, imprisoned, some never to come back to the comforts of kith and kin.

And so, whether under Papa Doc or his successor-son, Baby Doc, residents of Port-au-Prince, the Central American capital that was once a colony of the French, would whisper in frightened tones, "Les tontons … les tontons", and suddenly the streets would be deserted, each one hiding in fear. The Duvalier’s long reign of terror ended in the early 80"s mercifully with the aid of a shocked American officialdom, but not after a terrible loss of human lives and a climate of fear that has hobbled, even now, attempts at bringing back socio-economic normalcy to Haiti.

Les tontons referred to the "tonton macoute", the personal military, police and para-military goons employed by the by the Duvaliers to silence all opposition to their regime.


If we are not yet there, we may fast be approaching a situation where the illegitimate Queen merely reigns while the conniving fascist soldiers actually rule the land.

We may now have a president who is regaled by all the pomp and circumstance of acknowledged, even if usurped, power, while the wielders of the bayonets that prop her up, dictate the fate of the nation.

Do not dismiss this as alarmist thought. No one thought a duly elected Ferdinand Edralin Marcos would conscript his army to perpetuate his hold on political power. Until we woke up to its reality.

What if a president who everyone knows was never duly elected to the office she now holds, and who has had to hobble from one ouster attempt after another, and who has had to cheat and lie and steal to be able to survive, one despised by eight out of ten of the citizens of this country, has now become the willing parrot and the hostaged marionette of unseen hands and conspiratorial minds in the military, who, like Marcos before them, believe that who has the guns gets the gold?

http://www.malaya.com.ph/may29/edbanayo.htm

[patsadahon]

For me, they kill their own members and put the blame to the military so they could gain support from the people. Ana lang siguro ka simple.

For me, the military killed them. They have a greater motive. And this government has become fascists.

[lalakingbisdak]

For me, they kill their own members and put the blame to the military so they could gain support from the people. Ana lang siguro ka simple.

For me, the military killed them. They have a greater motive. And this government has become fascists.

Proof?

[patsadahon]

Prrof first that its the NPAs who killed fellow NPAs.

[patsadahon]

What about the people that this NPA's and co. abuses? How many of them? Cannot be counted?

The CPP-NPA has had its share of human rights abuses (dare I say, the lion's share?)Â* Lest people forget, thousands of its own party leaders and members were killed during its self-purging which occurred in the 1980s.

The CHR's summary accusations against the government should be taken with a grain of salt.Â* The CHR has been acting more like a mouthpiece for the communists than an independent entity, ever since its inception.

Purges? Those bones which are uncovered are recycled bones. Well, it cannot be denied that there were purges. But in times like these where the military is accused of killing activists and journalists, the finding of another mass grave is quite suspicious.

[franklin]

the military will kill those activists if there's a reward for their heads but if there's none, i dont think so. those are just moves to destabilize our country

[iloveyou4ever]

Prrof first that its the NPAs who killed fellow NPAs.

They are indeed a terrorist.

[baron]

I believe the government will not do it, even if they can.
Considering the argument that they have the motives, it does not necessarily follow that those who have motives will actually kill the person.

If I may say, the government is not that dumb to kill these people mainly because if they will kill them, indeed they will be the prime suspect, as what you have suggested when you said that they have the motives.

I must say that other group is behind these killings. They are just bidding their time since they know that other people will literally turn their head on with the present government. That is the reason why GMA ordered to thoroughly investigate and take immediate actions to those behind these killings. As much as it creates alarm to the people, it also creates questions to the present government on who is behind such killing that also wanted to destabilize the present political situation.

[patsadahon]

The military can always say lets investigate. But usually when the investigation points to their men, they will not divulge the result of their investigation. Look at the Mayuga report. It was not published and people dont know what is really the content of that report.

Ever since there are activists slain and the military announces it will investigate, no report came out.

This killings came at the heels of the government's pronouncement to wipe out the enemies of the state especially the insurgents. It just so sad that those who were wiped out are defenseless civilians and cause oriented workers.