Hustisya condemns the first two killings under Pnoy Administration

By HUSTISYA
July 6, 2010

QUEZON CITY  –  Hustisya or Victims of the Arroyo Regime United for Justice, joins members of various human rights groups and sectors today at the Chino Roces Bridge in Manila to protest the killings of JOSE DAGUIO, a radio broadcaster in Tabuk, Kalinga on July 3, 2010 and Bayan Muna and Makabayan Aklan Coordinator FERNANDO BALDOMERO in Lezo, Aklan on July 5, 2010.

At around 7:00 AM of July 5, 2010, Fernando Baldomero, 61 was about to start his motorcycle and bring his 12 year old son to school, when he was shot by two armed men. He sustained two gunshot wounds; one on the head and another on the neck. The two-term Municipal Councilor was also a political detainee in the 80’s.

Meanwhile, two days earlier, Jose Daguio, 72 a former radio broadcaster was about to feed his dog in his yard, when a man came and shot him, hitting him in the right side of his body. He failed to make it at the Kalinga Provincial Hospital in Tabuk.

Mrs. Evangeline Hernandez, Hustisya Spokesperson, fears that these recent cases of extrajudicial killing are sending us a chilling message of what the future may bring us under the Aquino Administration, “The murders of Fernando Baldomero and Jose Daguio reminds me of that time, when it was normal to kill three or five people in less than 24 hours, under the Arroyo Regime.”

The mother of Beng Hernandez, who was massacred together with four others in 2002, vividly remembers the murder of five people between October 25 and 26, 2005 where the fatalities were Ricardo Ramos, president of Central Azucarera de Tarlac Labor Union (Catlu) and barangay chairman of Mapalacsiao, Tarlac City; Francisco Rivera, Bayan Muna-Pampanga leader; Dr. Angel David and Vonjohn Maniti, Bayan-Pampanga allies; and Federico de Leon, Anakpawis-Bulacan leader. “Parang normal lang ang pumatay ng ganoon kadami sa isang araw; ngayon parang mauulit na muli ang bangungot,”( It seemed normal to kill that many in one day, and now it would also seem that we are going to relive that nightmare.),” she decries.

Hustisya laments that the Aquino administration has barely started and yet the Filipinos are now seeing shades of fascist fangs coming out from it. This, it says, was the same reason the previous regime was isolated from the people. In the end, Arroyo was condemned for its fascist and murderous ways.

“Is this the way, the Aquino administration wants to put closure on the killings, by merely closing that chapter of the Arroyo regime and picking up where its predecessor left under his government?” Hernandez asks.