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Saturday, August 23, 2003
Talk Back: Lost bands, indeed
By A TAU GAMMA PHI MEMBER
(This is a reaction to Sun.Star’s editorial last Aug. 4, 2003 entitled “Lost Bands.”)
I am an active member of the Metro Cebu Regional Council of Tau Gamma Phi/Sigma International Grand Fraternity and Sorority and this is purely my personal assessment.
Our elders declined to accept Cebu City Police Office Chief Cecil Ezra Sandalo’s invitation to a dialogue and didn’t give a statement to the press for a very good reason.
There have already been many attempts to patch up our differences with Akrho but it will be very hard, if not impossible, to attain genuine peace if one of the parties involved is not interested.
The call of Richard Buscaino, Akrho president for the Visayas, for peace between our groups is good, but it would only remain a call if they won’t clean up their ranks.
Obviously the attacks were not only done against us by the so-called “rival frat” but also against the public and against their co-frat members as well.
I also don’t buy the idea that the attacks involved only a “few bad eggs” because the suspects included “leaders” of their organization.
AkRho’s attacks are well planned and cleanly executed. The use of fancy vehicles such as pick-up’s, SUV’s or AUV’s during a “hit” can’t be considered ordinary skirmishes.
While I personally don’t condone our groups’ violent acts of retaliation, still I would say that we were left with no choice but to protect ourselves. After being lynched, all that is left might just be nothing but a dead Triskelion (as we call ourselves).
We have to fight in order to survive, just like a cat caught in a dead end by a rabid dog. In situations like that, how can the police possibly help us unless their drive is geared towards prevention? |
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