Kin of Inopacan massacre victims cry for justice for a decade now



By: Lottie Salarda 

Baybay City - The kin of Inopacan massacre victims commemorates the 10th year anniversary of Inopacan Mass Grave Discovery and Exhumation with the theme: Usa ka dekada sa padayon nga paghanumdum sa hustisya ug kalinaw" at Hipusngo Cemetery, Baybay City, Leyte on August 28.

     In line with the commemoration, the City government of Baybay through Mayor Carmen Cari marked the event with a holy mass at the cemetery where the 67 victims were buried, was officiated by Reverend Fr. Stanley Mepico.

      Eliosa Abenojar-Cababahay, 56 years old, the brother of William Abenojar who was allegedly abducted and killed by the members of the CPP-NPA called on the Duterte administration to help them attain justice.

      “Hanggang ngayon humihingi parin kami ng hustisya sa ginawa ng mga NPA sa kapatid ko. Wala siyang kasalan, inosente siya. Kaya nananawagan kami kay Pangulong Duterte na makamit naming ang hustisya,” Cababahay said.

      Abenojar was abducted together with his two other companions sometime in January 1984.

      As a relative of one of the victims, she felt insulted when she saw on the television that the couple Benito and Wilma Tiamzon is now out of jail and they participated in the peace talks between the CPP-NPA-NDF and the GRP.

      The Tiamzons and Satur Ocampo are now in Oslo, Norway to participate in the recently concluded peace talks negotiations.
 
      Meanwhile, 802nd Infantry Brigade Commander Col. Francisco F. Mendoza is hoping that the Government of the Philippines (GRP) representatives in the peace talks negotiations with the communist group will include the justice that has been long cried by the kin of the victims of the massacre not only in Inopacan but all over the country.

      Last year, the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police have filed cases against the 17 identified personalities who are responsible for the crime committed during the so-called "Oplan Venereal Disease" under the supervision of the AHOS committee headed by Jose Maria Sison, Satur Ocampo, Vicente Ladlad, Randall Echanis and Rafael Baylosis.

      The families have high hopes that they will attain justice in the Duterte administration.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The various dialects of Eastern Visayas

Image
This photo was taken during the celebration of Tacloban City fiesta last 2014.  Learning is fun especially if you’re interested in exploring new things that come your way each day. One of my interests is learning on how to speak the various dialects of Eastern Visayas. I traveled a lot in the past few weeks touring around the beautiful places of our region. I never had a travel in my college years. It’s all about waking up in the morning, speaking behind the microphone and studying at night. Since I was a kid, I’ve heard people speaking in “bisaya” and I find it very short but sweet to the ears. I found out that in Eastern Visayas, the inhabitants of some towns and provinces were speaking in “bisaya”. The province of Southern Leyte widely speaks “bisaya” as the place was closer to Central Visayas where large numbers of inhabitants were speaking the same dialect. The word “pangga” is short for “palangga” means “loved” is the sweetest among all words I had ever he
Read more

First Badjao teacher aims to produce more professionals from their tribe

Image
By: Lottie Salarda The pride of Brgy Dolho, Bato Leyte, Jesus Menjani Esmani, the first Badjao teacher in their community, is committed to produce more Badjao professionals by helping his nephews to get education. In his 22 years of working as a high school teacher, Esmani has produced two Electrical Engineers, one graduate of Bachelor of Business Administration, Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Bachelor of Science in Fisheries. Esmani, as the youngest child in the family, witnessed the hardships of his parents raising them by fishing as their means of livelihood. “ If there’s a storm, it means there will no food available for us. It’s so painful to see my family in that kind of situation, so with the encouragement of my high school teachers, and with the help of my siblings, I pursued my studies and dreamed that one day I will have a job,” said Esmani. He sells beauty and food products with his teachers, classmates and friends in school to help sust
Read more

"Labyu langga" one of the best songs ever written

Image
Bar owner Mr. Ruperto and his son performing live at Cafe Ruperto, San Antonio Northern Samar Honestly, ever since, it's been my frustration on not learning easily the bisaya  dialect which people of Central, Western and some other parts of Eastern Visayas speak. When I am in a place of bisaya  people, I listened and almost listed all those words I've heard and study them carefully. This month, we, from the local media together with bloggers and with the Department of Tourism visited the island of San Antonio in Northern Samar. Actually, that visit was not my first time. I was with the Zuellig guy who accompanied me to meet the Municipal Health Officer of the town for our Solar Scholars Program last month. I haven't gone to Cafe Ruperto when I visited the island. The place was perfect in listening to the love songs they sing while the night was covered by thousands of fireflies flying beautifully and peacefully. The owner Mr. Ruperto performed for us as he narrat
Read more