Maguindanao - this should never happen again
It has been more than a week. But it is still as fresh as ever. As painful as it was on the 23rd when these beastly acts were committed.
It was not just done to 57 individuals. It was done to the whole nation – to more than 80 millions here in the country and several millions more living and working overseas.
I could not make myself write anything. Even the CNN Hero of the YEAR win by Efren Penaflorida was eclipsed by this terrible event. It was not enough to serve as balm to soothe the pain that this massive wound has caused inside our hearts.
It is only today that the President has started visiting the relatives of the journalists who were murdered in broad daylight. She could not visit right away because she was busy sustaining the suspense whether she was running for a congressional seat or not. The immorality of what she is planning to do after her presidency is something that is so unthinkable. Amazing how the greed for power could be so intoxicating.
But we remember the fallen ones. We remember the little children who lost their mother. The husbands who lost their wives. The father who lost an unborn child. Mothers who lost their sons and husbands.
We remember our country that was vicariously hacked, gunned down and buried during that fateful day on November 23rd.
Lord heal our land…
