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Sunday, January 08, 2006
Speak out: Culture of violence
By Free Legal Assistance Group (Flag)
Region 7
(The following is a manifesto of the Free Legal Assistance Group-Region 7 released in Cebu City on Jan. 4, 2006.)
SHOCKED by the brutal assassination of its member, Pasay City Regional Trial Court Judge Henrick Gingoyon in Bacoor, Cavite on Dec. 31, 2005;
SADDENED by the loss of a young, honest, and patriotic member of the judiciary who rendered decisions on controversial cases without fear or favor and who decided a landmark case involving billions of pesos that was later on affirmed by the Supreme Court;
COGNIZANT of the fact that the heinous murder of Judge Gingoyon is an aftermath of the culture of violence that has pervaded our country today and which has spawned unsolved murders, assassinations, summary executions of suspected criminals and killings of activists and political dissenters;
AWARE of our duty as advocates of the rule of law, guardians of human rights, sentinels of justice, and defenders of the Constitution;
WE, the members of the Free Legal Assistance Group (Flag) Region 7, hereby condemn in the strongest possible terms the cowardly and brutal assassination of our member and colleague;
WE DENOUNCE the culture of violence pervading in our country today with the proliferation of unsolved murders of lawyers, judges, journalists and businessmen, assassinations of political dissenters and activists, and the rise of vigilantism in violation of the rule of law and the Constitution;
WE CALL on the government to use its full powers to put an end to this culture of violence that has become a blight on this beloved land; and
WE URGE the government to do everything possible to effect the early solution of the Gingoyon murder by arresting and prosecuting the real killers and their masterminds, and doing away with “fall guys” as well as solve the murders against lawyers, judges, journalists and political dissenters.
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