NPC to stage benefit concert for massacre victims

Calls for apprehension of remaining suspects 
THE National Press Club of the Philippines (NPC) is set to commemorate the 8th anniversary of the infamous 2009 ‘Ampatuan Massacre’ on Thursday, November 23 with a benefit concert to aid the families of the members of the media who were among the 58 victims.

Dubbed, ‘Konsiyerto Para sa Katarungan, Ikalawang Yugto’ performers of the concert would also come from the ranks of media practitioners who have musical talents. Venue of the event is at the ‘Bambu Intramuros’ located inside the NPC compound in Manila.

“As we again commemorate this tragic day for Philippine journalism, we call on the public and our media colleagues to support this benefit concert.

“By doing so, we not only help those in need but more importantly, we also remind everyone that we continue to hold high the banner of press freedom and justice despite the passage of years,” said NPC Pres. Paul M. Gutierrez of the Journal Group.

Gutierrez noted this would be the second year the NPC opted to stage a benefit concert to remember the event with the aim of helping the families of the remaining members of the press who continued with their fight for justice.

Of the 58 massacre victims, 32 of them were members of the press, Gutierrez noted.

“The NPC has purposely decided to focus its attention in helping alleviate the situation of the families of our murdered colleagues who are still continuing the fight for justice as we recognize the efforts of the Duterte administration to protect the ranks of the Philippine media with the formation last year of a presidential task force to protect the members of the press,” Gutierrez explained.

Gutierrez was referring to the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) formed by Malacañang with the signing last October 11, 2016, by Pres. Rodrigo Duterte of Administrative Order (AO) No. 1.

Last Friday, November 17, 2017, the NPC and other media groups composing the task force was given a briefing of the cases filed against the Ampatuan clan and their supporters by Department of Justice (DOJ) assistant secretary Juvy Manwong during a meeting at the task force’s new office inside the Malacañang compound.

During the meeting, Gutierrez called for the members of the task force to assist the authorities in the apprehension of the remaining 82 suspects who are still at large, according to the DOJ.

Manwong, for her part, added the prosecution has already rested its case and that it is now the turn of the defense to present its evidence and witnesses.

During last year’s commemoration, the NPC managed to raised P50,000 thru a benefit concert. The amount was then divided equally among the families of fallen journalists.

Since the 2009 incident, the NPC continues to support the education of the child of one of the fatalities, Andres Teodoro of Mindanao Inquirer/People’s Forum. (NPC MEDIA RELEASE)

PNoy won’t say sorry over Mamasapano incident’

Political analyst Edmund Tayao believes President Benigno Aquino III will not say sorry over the bloody Mamasapano operation even following the release of the Philippine National Police (PNP) Board of Inquiry (BOI) of its report on the incident.

“I don’t think that the President would even consider that,” Tayao said, explaining that the word “sorry” has already been associated with the previous administration.

The BOI, in its report, said the chain of command in the PNP was violated when the President, former PNP chief Alan Purisima, and former Special Action Force (SAF) director Getulio Napeñas “kept information” on the January 25 anti-terror operation “to themselves.”

The BOI said Aquino, who “gave the go-signal” for Oplan Exodus, “allowed the participation” of Purisima in the planning and execution despite his suspension.

He also “bypassed” the PNP chain of command when he directly dealt with Napeñas, instead of PNP officer-in-charge Leonardo Espina.

“And even if it (saying sorry) happens right now, it becomes stale or if not useless. Perhaps what we can expect is at least for the President to really pinpoint to who or what is the culpability of his good friend, the former chief PNP,” Tayao said.

See ABS-CBN story here.

— ANC Dateline Philippines, March 14, 2015

Media killings, seryoso na! — ALAM

MULING sumilakbo ang galit ng mga mamamahayag matapos sunud-sunod na malagasan sa loob lamang ng dalawang linggo.

Ayon kay Alab ng Mamamahayag (ALAM) Chairman Jerry Yap, hindi pa nareresolba ang pagpatay sa mga naunang media men ay heto na naman ang dalawang pinatay.

Ang pinakahuli ay isang journalist na si Michael Milo, national supervisor ng Prime Radio FM at managing editor ng Prime Balita Newspaper sa Tandag City, Surigao del Sur.

Si Milo ay pinagbabaril hanggang sa mapatay noong Biyernes ng isang riding in tandem sa na taga-Purok Palmera, Barangay Mabua, Tandag City ng mga hindi pa nakikilang suspek.

Ayon kay Surigao Del Sur Provincial Police Officer In Charge Supt. Romeo Ramos, nakasakay sa motorsiklo ang biktima nang sundan ito ng isang motorsiklo na may tatlong sakay.

Ilang araw pa lamang ang nakalilipas, brutal na pinatay rin si Davao del Norte Press & Radio-TV Club member Joash Dignos.

Si Dignos ay host ng blocktime radio program “Bombardeo” sa DXGT Radyo Abante 92.1 FM sa Maramag, Bukidnon.

Tulad ni Milo, pinagbabaril hanggang sa mapatay si Dignos ng apat na hindi kilalang lalaki sa isa na namang motorcycle-riding suspects.

Bago pinatay ang dalawang journalist ay kapwa sila nakatanggap ng mga death threats ngunit binabalewala nila ito.

Anim na buwan na ang nakararan, dalawang lalaki naman ang maghagis ng granada sa istasyon ng DXGT station na pinagtatrabahuhan ni Dignos ngunit wala pa ring linaw ang imbestigasyon dito.

“Seryoso na ang mga nagaganp na patayan,” ani Yap. “Walang takot ang mga kriminal, at pare-pareho ang estilo sa pagpatay. Riding in tandem at pagbaril. Hindi pa ba nababahala ang gobyerno sa mga nagaganap na patayang ito?”

“Kahit si (Communications Chief) Sonny Coloma, inaming seryoso na ang mga patayang ito. Sana naman, hindi puro lip-service lang ang gobyerno. Kumilos naman sila.”

Giit pa ni Yap, sa nasabing mga pagpatay sa mga miyembro ng media at kitang-kita ang hayagang paglabag sa ginarantiyahan ng gobyerno na kalayaan sa pamamahayag sa Pilipinas.

“Sa Pilipinas, delikado ang buhay ng journalist na kritikal sa mga pulitiko at mahilig pumuna sa mga mali nilang ginagawa,” ani Yap. “Lahat kami, delikado ang buhay dahil tinutupad namin ana aming mga tungkulin na ibulgar ang katiwalian.”

Idinagdag pa ng dating pangulo ng National Press Club (NPC) na hindi dapat pinatatagal ang mga ganitong kaso.

“Nakakaalarma na at nakakatakot,” dagdag pa ni Yap. “Kung ganyang inaamin ng Task Force Usig (ng Philippine National Police – PNP) at Task Force 211 (ng Department of Justice –DOJ) na inutil sila at hindi nila kaya ang mga ganitong kaso, buwagin na lamang yan. Dagdag-gastos pa yan sa gobyerno, inutil naman.”

Sina Dignos at Milo ang ika-20 at 21 biktima ng media killings sa panahon ng panunungkulan ni Pres. Benigno Simeon Aquino III.

‘Dasal, panawagan alay sa mga biktima ng Maguindanao Massacre’

Panalangin at panawagan sa katarungan ang alay ng media group Alab ng Mamamahayag (ALAM) sa muling paggunita sa tinaguriang Maguindanao Massacre noong Sabado, November 23.

Hiniling din ni ALAM Chairman Jerry Yap na maibigay na ang tulong sa mga naiwan ng 34 na mamamahayag na kasamang nasawi sa nasabing massacre.

“Maraming nangako ng tulong,” ani Yap. “Si Maguindanao Gov. (Esmael) Toto Mangudadatu, na nangakong bibigyan ng livelihood at pag-aaralin niya ang mga anak ng mga nabiktimang journalist. Ewan ko kung ano na ang nangyari sa pangakong iyon.”

Bukod kay Mangudadatu, maraming politiko rin ang nangako ng tulong sa mga naulila ng nasabing mga mamamahayag.

Matatandaang naganap ang tinaguriang Maguindanao Massacre o Ampatuan Massacre noong November 23, 2009, matapos matagpuan ang mga mass graves sa Ampatuan, Mahuindanao.

Kinidnap at pinatay ang may 58 katao habang patungo si Gov. Mangundadatu, sa bayan ng Buluan upang kumandidato laban kay Datu Unsay Ampatuan, Jr, anak ng noon ay kasalukuyang gobernador ng Maguindanao na si Andal Ampatuan, Sr.

Ang mga Ampatuan ay kinikilalang pinakamakapangyarihang angkan ng mga pulitiko sa nasabing probinsya.

Kasama sa mga pinatay ang asawa ni Mangudadatu at dalawang kapatid na babae; 34 na journalists; mga abugado; aides, at mga motoristang nakasaksi sa krimen o aksidenteng nakakita sa convoy.

Ilan beses rin na umapela ang National Press Club (NPC) of the Philippines na noon ay nasa pamumuno ni Jerry Yap, upang mabigyan ng katarungan ang ang 34 na miyembrong nakasama sa massacre.

“Alam nating lahat na ito ang pinakamatinding pag-atake sa media sa buong kasaysayan ng Pilipinas,” ani Yap. “Dapat lamang silang mabigyan ng hustisya at kumpensasyon.”

Itinuturing ang Pilipinas na ikalawang pinakadelikadong lugar para sa mga mamamahayag, pumapangalawa lamang sa Afghanistan, kung saan may nagaganap na digmaan.

Inaasahan ni ALAM Chairman Jerry Yap na tutuparin ni Judge Jocelyn Solis Reyes ang kanyang pangako na tatapusin niya ang paglilitis sa kasong ito bago matapos ang Pnoy administration.

Bong’s lawyer: Senate violated Napoles’ right

By Christina Mendez, The Philippine Star, ABS-CBN
MANILA, Philippines – The camp of Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. yesterday expressed concern that the Senate may have committed a “brazen violation” of Janet Lim-Napoles’ constitutional right to presumption of innocence when some senators insinuated that she could be guilty in the alleged pork barrel scam.

Joel Bodegon, legal counsel of Revilla who is one of three senators facing plunder in connection with the scam, also decried the trial by publicity generated by the Senate Blue Ribbon committee’s probe on the pork barrel issue last Thursday.

“The sad thing is that the investigation was a brazen violation of Janet Napoles’ constitutional right to presumption of innocence as most of the senators already condemned her guilty without the benefit of trial,” Bodegon said.

How can women break the insidious cycle of relationship failure

Nothing is more traumatic than seeing a relationship falling apart. It breeds suspicion, distrust and distance. A couple who could not live without each other at one point of time start finding reasons to stay away. The relationship failure is painful for both the partners. Both try to hurt each other; and the more they hurt each other the more they destroy what was once a very loving relationship.

Signs of relationship failure

It needs no special skills to understand when a relationship starts turning sour. Some of the indicators are:

1. The partners start finding fault with each other.
2. They stop listening to each other
3. They start spending more time outside the house
4. They find less and less time, and even less reason, to touch each other or reassure each other that everything is right.
5. The trust breaks down.
6. No satisfactory explanations are offered for coming late.
7. Phone calls are not returned 
8. There is an attempt to hurt and wound each at the slightest possibility.
9. The mutual respect that existed for each other starts shrinking.
10. There are high expectations but no give and take.

How can women save the relationship
The onus to save a relationship rests on both the partners. One partner alone cannot save a relationship if the other is adamant of walking away. However, if the relationship is in trouble on account of misunderstandings then surely the woman in the house can save it.

The first step is to start listening to her mate. She need not flare up or show her disapproval if she does not agree to what he has to say. Instead, she must accept at face value his statements. This is not an easy task but the first critical step to assuage his male ego. No man wants to be treated lightly. He will start feeling more wanted if he finds that the woman he loves is not always on the warpath. The small conversations that ended up in bitterness and conflict will gradually start getting longer. 

The next step is to show that you want your man to come closer to you. This can start by putting a little more passion in the peck that you give him when he leaves for work or the hug when he returns. He may surely be surprised, and even a little restrained to return you new found love, but there is no better way to close the gap than through touch. It can bridge the widest of distances that may divide a relationship. 

You should simultaneously start finding fault with him. Don’t ask him to give an explanation for coming late or staying away on weekends. Take it in your stride. Wait for him to open up.

Give the man some space
Also, give him space to unwind when he returns from work. You don’t have to rush to him, and start a conversation. Every man likes some private time and space to himself. Let him avail it; let him cool down and become emotionally more ready for your light chat and banter. Avoid subjects that he thinks are frivolous; focus on issues that may interest him. Of course, don’t try to fool him by trying to over reach yourself. Even silences are great for companionship. You can just pat his hair or hold his hand while he watches TV or hover close around him to make him feel wanted.

Soft music and good food can make him more relaxed. Try to play music that he likes, and cook food that he loves. You should allow him to set the pace if he wants to take you to bed. Don’t push yourself on him. But let him believe that you have come to him because you wanted it. This anyway is true. 

Don’t try to change your man
It is important that you stop trying to change your mate. This is one mistake that most spouses make. They think that their men will change if they keep after them. Nothing can be more counterproductive. Constant nagging only leads to revolt and rebellion. Also, stop blaming your mate for anything and everything that has gone wrong in the relationship. It will only make him fight back.

You must not sound or look dishonest when you are trying to salvage the relationship. It is essential that you have full belief in what you are doing. You should gradually make him talk of why he had starting moving away from you. Once again, you don’t have to push him into talking about his misgivings. You should create a situation where he wants to confess, where he wants to release the pent up feelings. This can have magical affect on your relationship. Suddenly, the ghosts that had bedeviled your relationship will be exorcised.

There will be trust again, and mutual faith. Try not to loose it again.

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Sexy Musical Instruments Drive Women Wild

Tired of trying to attract the woman of your dreams into your life? Fed up with getting nowhere fast? Does even your pet spaniel reject your caresses?

Well, it might come as little surprise, but what turns many women on is music and those who play it. The sheer romance of standing beneath the boudoir window of your beloved and reciting your melancholy airs, whether clad in tunic and tights or not, has been known to turn even the coldest heart into the most ardent groupie ready to give you her all!

But, I hear you say, isn’t that just a bit old fashioned and really corny, even laughable in these modern times? A valid point, so what I’ve come up with is a list of several innovative ways to attract your heart’s desire, through the power of music — cutting edge, original techniques, to really get you noticed and become the new Modern Romeo.

So let’s go! Here are the first 4 musical instruments, mastery of any of which is bound to win over the heart of your beloved: 

Aeolian Wind Harp

The Aeolian harp originated in ancient Greece and was very popular throughout the Renaissance. In its traditional form, the instrument was designed to be played by the wind alone, without human action. The harp essentially comprises a wooden box with strings stretched between two bridges. If placed in a slightly open window where the wind can blow across the strings, it will produce random sounds, depending on the strength of the wind, ranging from a barely audible deep hum to a loud soprano scream.

Interestingly, the effect can sometimes be both heard and seen in overhead utility lines. It also makes an often dramatic appearance in non-telescopic automobile antennae. You might also recall that in Nabokov’s Lolita, the narrator’s father married an English girl whose grandmother was an aficionado of the Aeolian harp.

Beer Bottle Organ

The perfect foil to a hard night out on the town, the concept of a bottle organ dates back to the early 19th century. The organ sound is actually produced by blowing air over the tops of beer bottles housed in a wooden cabinet. The instrument, as developed by Peterson Tuners, includes an air pump and a self-playing device. It can also be made coin-operated. The beer bottles are filled or “tuned” using mineral oil, so it will not evaporate or change tuning due to climatic changes.

Double Violin

The violin is one of the most traditional romantic instruments: from Paganini to Nigel Kennedy, hearts have been won across the globe as romantic airs waft through starlit skies. But why stop at a single instrument? Be sure to kill off all competition with a double violin!

Jon Rose developed his 10-string double violin as part of an ongoing project lasting over 25 years, creating a total art-form around the violin. Central to the project is innovation in violin design, with over 20 deconstructed instruments in the series of Relative Violins. The double violin is essentially two violins that share the same fingerboard. Jon Rose performs his group projects and solo music in over 50 concerts every year around the world.

Glass Armonica

An instrument with a playing technique to should strike an immediate chord with the romantically inclined. And if you’re not romantically inclined, then why on earth are you reading this?

The glass armonica was invented in 1761 by Benjamin Franklin. It is played in the same way as rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a wineglass, producing a musical note. The glass bowls are individually tuned, so that they do not need to be filled with water. The bowls are tuned by size, mounted one inside the other with cork on a metal spindle. The glasses are made to spin with a flywheel attached to a foot pedal. Ben Franklin himself declared “Of all my inventions, the glass armonica has given me the greatest personal satisfaction”.

Whilst initially very popular (Mozart himself composing works for it), its popularity did not last far beyond the 18th century. This might even have been due to strange rumours that using the instrument caused both musicians and listeners to go insane. A German musicologist, one Friedrich Rochlitz, even went so far as to declare “the armonica excessively stimulates the nerves, plunges the player into a nagging depression and hence into a dark and melancholy mood that is apt method for slow self-annihilation. If you are suffering from any nervous disorder, you should not play it; if you are not yet ill you should not play it; if you are feeling melancholy you should not play it.”

I hope you have enjoyed learning about these novel methods of winning your heart’s desire and that you will soon become that romantic hero to which you aspire. Thank you for reading. Please watch this space for more unusual romantic ideas of how to seduce women and gain their hearts through music and the arts.

Author Bio

Antonio Bonito is a classical musician and owner of the Imsizzling.com adult dating web site.

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Adult Dating Tips: Seductive Techniques Using Music to Attract Women

Online dating for teenagers and young adults seems a relatively simple pursuit requiring little more than an exchange of photographs and a passing reference to some common interests. And that’s it, the match is made, although it might not last more than a few days! But for the older and more experienced adult, dating is usually a more complex issue, in which both the man and the woman will expect more from their potential partner.

So why not give yourself a head start and make your profile that much more interesting. Being able to play a musical instrument, particularly an unusual musical instrument, will not only make your profile stand out from the herd but will also arouse much interest and curiosity. At the very least it will get you a few dates quite quickly, but in many cases you will soon find that you have become a veritable magnet to the opposite sex.

Let’s take a look at the next four unusual musical instruments you might consider adding to your online dating armory. They range from the most ancient to the most modern, so there is sure to be one to appeal to every musical taste.

LightHarp. The LightHarp uses lasers, spotlights and light sensors to trace virtual strings through space for performers to play. I believe something similar was used by Mr Spok to charm the heart of many an interstellar traveler. The instrument does not produce sound itself, rather it controls computers and synthesizers.

The current version of the LightHarp has been designed in leather by the famous leather artist, Garry Greenwood. The LightHarp is also the World’s first Indian computer music instrument and resembles a veena in shape and design. It has a total of 32 light-sensor virtual strings, each of which play either individual notes, music samples or act as frets on a string. But although designed for playing Indian music, the LightHarp is also capable of performing dense polyphonic textures with micro-tonal tunings.

Nano Guitar. Now here’s an instrument guaranteed to please the technology-minded lady, and it comes in one convenient pocket-sized package. Keep one by you at all times. You never know when it might come in handy!

The smallest guitar in the world, the Nano Guitar is only 10 micro-meters in length — about the size of a single cell — with six strings each about 50 nanometers, or 100 atoms, wide. The original Nano Guitar was made to resemble a Fender Stratocaster. The new, “playable” version, actually about five times the size of the original, is modeled on the Gibson Flying V.

The strings are actually silicon bars, 150 by 200 nanometers in cross-section and ranging from 6 to 12 micrometers in length (a nanometer is a billionth of a meter, the length of three silicon atoms in a row. For comparison, the diameter of a human hair is about 200 micrometers, or 200,000 nanometers). They vibrate at frequencies 17 octaves higher than those of a real guitar, so special listening skills will be required!

Serpent. An instrument with overt sexual overtones and in the right hands a lethal weapon in your armory to seduce your beloved. Just don’t overdo it, the effects can be earth-shattering!

The Serpent is an ancient musical wind instrument, related to the modern tuba, invented by Canon Edmé Guillaume in 1590 in France, and was first used to reinforce the sound of church choirs. It was made from wood and blown with a cup shaped mouthpiece. Played softly, it has a firm mellow tone. At medium volume, it produces a robust sound — something of a cross between the tuba, bassoon and French horn. But when played loudly, the serpent can produce seriously unpleasant noises reminiscent of large animals mating or in distress.

Theremin. The Theremin is perhaps my preferred instrument, and one of the most versatile. But as with all musical instruments worthy of the name, please consider the neighbors and try to perfect your technique before rushing out to try this. Police cells and hospitals have been known to become overcrowded with failed Theremin players.

The Theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments, the forerunner of the electronic synthesizer. However it is unique in that it is played without ever physically touching it. Invented by the Russian inventor Leon Theremin in the 1920s, the instrument is outfitted with two antennae and when the hands of the player enter the electrostatic field around each antenna, changes in pitch and volume occur.

For years the Theremin enjoyed cult status in sci-fi movies (such as Bernard Herman’s score for the 1951 classic The Day the Earth Stood Still) and it is still used today in movies and by a number of contemporary musicians including bands such as Led Zeppelin, Radiohead and Portishead. In fact the Theremin is enjoying a veritable musical renaissance!

I hope you have enjoyed learning about these intriguing musical instruments, mention of any one of which on your adult dating site profile is bound to generate a lot of interest. But it’s for you to take it from there!

Author Bio

Antonio Bonito is a classical musician and owner of the Imsizzling.com adult dating online personals web site.

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Dating After Loss of a Spouse

When a relationship ends due to one partner dying, what is the correct time period to begin dating again? Grief is such a funny, unpredictable animal. Many people in years’ past think a year is a suitable time to wait before incorporating life changes, and yet for many of us, a year into our loss – we’re barely getting started on our grief journey. My experience has been that people and perhaps society as a whole, do not allow enough time or thought to the actual grief process. There is no quick fix or “getting over it” and moving on. We all move through grief in our own ways and means. There is nothing by formula that we can follow or hope to happen. Talking with others who have experienced a similar loss is definitely a plus.

Some days the road is more difficult than others days. At times, you feel enveloped in a mist of uncertainty. Even small decisions can sometimes stretch past your point of coping.

Personal decisions are just that, personal. What is suitable for anyone must be decided individually. Sometimes you have to let go of preconceived notions of the correct way to act and grieve. 

I began dating too early, about a year after my husband passed away. I was incredibly lonely and in a real oxymoron, I was determined to be happy again, at any cost to myself. So, I started dating through online sites and I kept attracting the wrong type of man. Takers, emotionally unavailable, surface daters, serial daters, men who mirrored my own uncertainty about my readiness to date again.

None of these connections turned out to be anything substantial. In a fog of grief, I yearned to find someone to love, and yet I knew these men were wrong for me. They were just a short ride on a ferry to nowhere special. It was brought home to me gradually, through my dating experiences, that I had to value myself more than what I was doing. I couldn’t settle with a partner just to have someone in my life. I deserved more. My dates deserved more than someone still traveling through grief. 

In those early days, I was as unavailable as the men I dated. If I had realized this, perhaps I would have run fast in the opposite direction, but in two instances I hung on to a flagging relationship, hoping things would change. Of course they did not.

Gradually, I came to realize that I had to stop setting myself up for disappointment in relationships. How could I attract the right partner, unless I was equally ready for a commitment?

I made the decision to bring my standards up to a new level and part of this process involved not dating for over a year. Only then did I start meeting the quality of man that my higher consciousness demanded. I was no longer wasting my time, or theirs, in surface dating, where both of us knows after one date there is no chemistry or real interest.

We all deserve better for ourselves than settling in a relationship just to alleviate the loneliness. It is difficult being alone when you are used to so much more, but I have chosen to remain so until the right partner comes along. It’s a personal decision, and for me, there is no other choice.

Author Bio

Elaine Williams is a widow and author of A Journey Well Taken: Life After Loss will be available June 2008, www.ajourneywelltaken.com

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ATTACKS ON MEDIA, RED CROSS CONDEMNED

Mariing kinondena kahapon ng media group Alab ng Mamamahayag (ALAM) ang rebeldeng Moro National Lliberation Front (MNLF) matapos masaktan sa isang sagupaan ang anim na miyembro ng media at mga volounteer ng Philippine National Red Cross (PNRC).

Sa isang text na natanggap ni ALAM President Jerry Yap mula sa isang media man, nilabag ng mga MNLF rebels ang ‘principles of war’ nang atakihin nila and mga miyembro ng media at PNRC volounteers.

Ayon kay Benjie Murillo, ALAM member at dating director ng National Press Club (NPC), kahit saang giyera ay iginagalang ang presensya ng media at red cross dahil alam ng lahat na wala silang pinapanigan.

Nais ng media na mag-cover ng mga nangyayari at ang red cross naman ay magbibigay ng tulong sa mga masusugatan sa magkabilang panig.

Ngunit sa nangyari noong Biyernes, September 13, ipinakita umano ng MNLF na wala sila sa katwiran.

“Nasa maselang kalagayan ngayon ang red cross volounteer dahil sa tama niya sa dibdib samantalang nasa bingit naman ng kamatayan ang lahat ng media men na nagsasagawa ng coverage sa Zamboanga,” ani Yap. “Wala na talaga silang respeto sa buhay ng tao. Daig pa nila ang mga barbaro. Pati kapwa nila Muslim ay pinahihirapan nila.”

Sa ika-5 araw ng sagupaan, umabot na sa 22 ang patay at 52 naman ang sugatan, kabilang ang ilang sundalo at sibilyan.

Noong Huwebes, personal na nagtungo si President Benigno Simeon Aquino III sa Zamboanga upang bumuo ng kasunduan kay MNLF Chief Nur Misuari upang matapos na ang kaguluhan.

Gayunman, walang naganap na usapan at nanatili pa rin ang karahasan.

Umabot naman sa 5,600 pamilya o 24,880 katao ang nagsisiksikan ngayon sa mga evacuation centers dahil sa sapilitang pagpapalikas ng pamahalaan.

Sa report ni Murillo kay Yap, kahit kapwa Muslim ay hindi sinasanto ng MNLF.

Mahigit 100 katao pa ang hawak na bihag ng MNLF na ginagamit nilang human shield.

Ilang bata na umano ang tinamaan ng bala ng baril at nasa malubhang kalagayan ngunit ayaw pa ring pakawalan ng mga rebelde.

Nakahilera umano ang mga bihag habang nakagapos ng lubid sa harapan ng mga rebelde kaya hindi gaanong makapagpaputok ang mga sundalo.

Bukod sa paggamit sa mga bihag, nanunog rin umano ng kabahayan ang mga rebelde.

Pinilit ng mga bumbero na apulahin ang apoy ngunit hindi umano sila makalapit dahil patuloy sa pagpapasabog ng mortar ang MNLF.

Taong 1996 nang makipagkasundo ang MNLF sa gobyernong pinamumunuan ni dating Pres. Fidel Ramos.

Ngunit noong 2001, muling pinamunuan ni Misuari ang isang paksyon ng MNLF upang muling labanan ang gobyerno.

Nakulong si Misuari noong 2008 sa Fort Sto. Domingo, Sta. Rosa, Laguna, kung saan kasalukuyang nakakulong ngayon ang itinuturong utak ng P10-billion PDAF scam na si Janet Lim Napoles, ngunit muli itong nakalaya.

Sa pamumuno ni PNoy, binuo ang Bangsamoro Framework Agreement (BFA) na matinding kinontra ni Misuari.

Dahil dito, nagdeklara ang nasabing MNLF faction ng kasarinlan at paghiwalay umano ng Mindanao sa Pilipinas na hindi naman kinilala ng ating gobyerno.