Remember Ampatuan, and remember their names.

by Thursday, January 14, 2010 12 palagay


(the following are some of the actual photos sent in our internal email.)





Fifty-seven (according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines) were murdered last Monday. Thirty of them belonged to the media, 30 men and women whose presence in this benighted country has become the one assurance that the worst will not happen. No guns will be drawn while a camera rolls, but even that safety is gone. Not once in the history of journalism has carnage like this happened to so many. There are no more rules, no lines left to cross. The government would like to give Andal Jr. his dignity, they want to make sure he is treated fairly, they trip over their own tangled lies for his sake. And yet there was no dignity left in the men and women found bloated and half-naked in Sitio Masalay, stripped of notebook and camera and wallet, stripped of face and name, until some unfortunate daughter recognizes Papa’s shirt or Mama’s pants.



[...] This is what the men who fired those machine guns last Monday did not know: that there is no journalist today who will not stand for those who were lost. Remember what happened here, on a lonely hill in a quiet town, where a blue sky sweeps over sprawling green. Remember Ampatuan, and remember their names.
- Carnage, Patricia Evangelista (c)Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/28/2009

Yas Jayson

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12 palagay:

Andrei Alba said...

bakit hindi pa bitayin yang ampatuan naman ampota.

citybuoy said...

napakagraphic naman ng pictures. bad siya. hindi tao gumawa nyan.

kris said...

nabasa ko yang column niya. (ang sakit sa mata ng mga picture.)

leroy said...

inexplain sa akin ni fr. irvin kung bakit nagkakapatayan e. kalimutan ko na kung bakit.

TheCoolCanadian said...

This murders are evil, evil, evil.
This is the extreme of man's inhumanity to his fellow man. They have no respect for human life – a precious existence lent to all of us by our Lord God.

May the victims are now in a place where they are surrounded by the love of our Lord.

And when the time comes for the perpetrators of these evil acts to face eternal life, may our Lord God have mercy on them.

Rico De Buco said...

nakakakulo ng dugo ang nangyari parang hindi tao ang gumawa ..nice write up..

MgaEpal.com said...

Matapos iangat nI Pacquiao ang pangalan ng bansa.. at sa natamasa na award ni Efren (Ako Mismo)
Sinira tayo ng pangyayari na yan sa buong mundo! PUTANG INA TALAGA!

Kosa said...

yeaha parekoy!
isa itong history sa buong mundo bilang pinakamalaking pagpatay ng sabay-sabay sa isang grupo ng mamamahayag.

karumaldumal.

meron pa daw itong video version pero hindi ko pa nakikita.

Jinjiruks said...

bunso bakit delay ata ang entry na ito. monthsary naba nila ng mga napatay?

Dabo said...

I beleive they would be convicted

Eli said...

ay grabe namang mga pics yan.. whooo di kaya ng powers ko.. hindi makatao

Yas Jayson said...

@andrei:
masakit nga sa ulo. eh. adiik.

@kuya nyl:
ba SILA. mga potangna nila.
kapag pinalagpas talaga ang isyung ito,
magmimigrate ako sa bahamas.

@kris:
patricia evangelista's way of writing is my all time favorite.
whew.
the picture says it all.
the ugly truth.

@leroy:
ampotek, bat mo kinalimutan? adik ka.

@cool canadian:
i cannot stand seeing them smiling on the cam.
it's as if all is fine and nothing is relly
disturbing with what they have done.

nakoo. talaga, magmimigrate ako sa bahamas
kapag na-absolved ang mga putanginang to.

ps.It seems that they do not pay attention
on their religion.

@kuya rico:
hindi talaga maka-tao. fuck you sila.

@kosa:
haay. minsan na nga lang mapunta sa spot light ang pinoy,
sinamahan pa ng kakaibang talent ng mga
ampatuan. ewan. bakit ba kasi nauso ang
mga private armies.

meron nga, kaso tagong binebenta sa mindanao,
tntry kong kontakin yung mga kaibigan ko sa
cotabato.

@kuya jeff:
hindi naman. na-late lang. haha

@dabo:
"I beleive they would be convicted"

i believe is a soft term. they have suits well.

@elay:
may mga mas grabe pang picture sa email ko.
di ko lang nilagay kasi pati ako nasusuka.
respeto na din sa kanila. :D