Looking back to what had happened , it’s really TRAUMATIC to each and everyone of us,when PEOPLE WITHOUT CONSCIENCE can do such a GRUESOME/BARBARIC CRIME.As a woman myself, what they have done to the women-victims were INJUSTICE BEYOND WORDS.They all died because of people that have been so GREEDY WITH POWER .Whoever have orchestrated and have done this MUST PAY TO THEIR LAST DROP OF BLOOD.There must be more buried in their area ,if it wasn’t a blown up news- they’ll belonged to people that have been buried to unknown locations and the bereaved families that have lost their kins,friends will forever never see even their very bones.JUSTICE MUST PREVAIL,no one is excused for committing such a crime that shocked the whole world.It’s sad because not all people here in Mindanao are as HEARTLESS as those that have done it.We are PEACE LOVING AND HARDWORKING PEOPLE that just want to live in a PEACEFUL/CRIME-FREE ENVIRONMENT.Due to this ,our Mindanao will be SCARRED FOR LIFE and some people now thought that it’s unsafe to go here.
I have lived here for 41 years,my grandfather have never left our place – even died here ,because for him he had found the LAND OF PROMISE .He has chosen to live here with his family because he was charmed by the place,he served as the 1st Vice Mayor of a city here and he’ll always tell us that wherever we go we’ll always go back here in Mindanao.He has befriended Muslim clans because he got a farm planted with palm oil somewhere in Sultan Kudarat.There were tough times during his early years staying on that area but what had happened in Maguindanao was perhaps the worst in the history for it involved innocent people /hardworking people/women that were killed for a WHIM.
Everyone here wants JUSTICE for what they have caused us all.We all fear for our lives if these people can’t be all caught .They must pay for the crimes they have committed.
I do hope that there’ll be more evidences leading to the downfall of the people behind this UNFORGIVABLE CRIME OF A LIFETIME.
Praying for the bereaved families that they must find ways in accepting what had happened to their loved ones,for us living here in Mindanao,that we’ll be protected from abusive /heartless people that terrorizes our peaceful lives.
We must be vigilant at all times,because we never know what happens next.
Thanking people that have done their very best/worked hard to come out with an analysis that can be very vital/useful to unveil the REAL TRUTH behind this RUTHLESS CRIME.

no problem.

i’m sure all these online expressions of anger have driven home the point, at least. : )

Hi! I was actually responding to BenK’s reply to your post. What does he propose we do apart from expressing indignation?

He has a point in bringing up the question of “We’ve all expressed our indignation. What now?” Does it really stop there?

I was just trying to get his point of view on what he proposes that we do.

On the other hand, I generally agree with the original post. No one should have to be obliged to express indignance over any matter, but are free to do so if they wish. It will help more if their expression of indignance actually has substance.

I would hope mine did.

i’m not really against expressions of indignation. what i’m not particularly fond of are indignation bandwagons bordering on mindless hysteria like what happened with that pangandaman-de la paz brawl and even the tsip chao issue.

our expressions of anger over this massacre is of course valid and justifiable. yun nga lang i want to be able to do it on my own terms and not because someone who feels he or she has monopoly of indignation is making a big fuss out of it.

Upon hearing about the massacre, the very first emotion that washed over me – before the indignance – was helplessness.

In our long history as a group of islands that were eventually grouped as a “nation” now called the Philippines, we have never experienced this kind of barbarity. And yet, one finds that if there has to be a place in our country that such a heinous act of terrorism can be committed, it has to be in Mindanao. It will be interesting to find out how all these started. It will be interesting to find out who are responsible. It is my proposition that the Aquino Family — Ninoy and Cory — is responsible, in a major way, for the conflict in Mindanao, and more directly, the rise of the Ampatuans to power.

All in all, despite much being made of Andal Ampatuan being arrested and charged, I think the government is handling the whole thing very poorly, and is doing nothing to impress upon the rest of the world that they have got things under control.