His alibi: “It was the MILF!”
Yeah right, they just took a government backhoe and waited patiently in the highway for the ambush. I know you must lie more times in a day than you pee but the lack of effort on this one is just insulting. He might have as well blamed some martians for the massacre.
Dureza on the other hand decided to treat the “delicate matter” properly by paying a courtesy call to a mass murder suspect and asked him to “cooperate.” What he should have done is send in some commandos kicking down the door, lobbing a flash bang or two and arrest the man at gun point, put on some handcuffs(real ones not those plastic handcuffs they’ve used on the journalists during the manila peninsula siege) and drag the asshole to jail. It wouldn’t have brought back the dead to life but it would have been some consolation to see the man-king of maguindanao stripped of his “prestige.”
Why is it that the police have absolutely no problem beating up young protesters senseless and the military abducting and executing activists but are squeamish about properly arresting actual criminals?
In Japan, when politicians are disgraced, they kill themselves. Here, when they are challenged for the position, they kill people and blame it on the rebels. This country seems to be host to some really fucked up people.
On a side note, I really want the other Ampatuans, particularly the younger ones in Davao to show some humanity and fucking disown their fucked up relatives. Otherwise, they shall be judged as people who stood by murderers. I know they say family is everything, but you know what? It is not. It is bad enough that those youngsters have no qualms about reaping the fruits of their parents pillage. It will be worse if they turn a blind eye on the atrocities of their kin.
