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Tuesday, September 23, 2003
Editorial: Murder Incorporated
THE almost daily recovery of dead bodies or cadavers in the city does not seem to affect to moral conscience of our leaders in Zamboanga today.
It appears that no tears are being shed, except by the relatives, for the extra judicial killings in the city that have been going on for the last several months.
The figure for last week was 38 and by today that must reach 40. This figure represents only the number of cadavers that have been refused burial by caretakers of burying grounds in the city. If we also count those whose bodies were taken away by relatives, the number of people who have been killed must now be substantial.
Unlike ordinary crimes in the city, such as those arising mostly from drinking sprees, other killings or open murders have been resolved or could be resolved.
These are cases where the killing was precipitated by something these, like a family feud, a long standing grudge or passion as in love and star crossed affairs that results to the killing of paramours. In all these cases the killers and the victim had at least a change to defend themselves.
Not so with the victims of Murder Incorporated in the city. All the victims appear to be systematically tortured tied with wires or nylon ropes from which there is no escape.
The manner that they are killed reveals the brutality that the murderers employ. Stabbing a tied man must bring such a pleasure to the killer that one stab at a vital part is not enough and the victim sustain stab wounds each of which could be fatal.
The act of repeatedly stabbing the victim show that the killers must enjoy the act, otherwise why employ more thrusts than is needed to kill. Slashing the throat is usually not the fatal stroke but one that comes like a desert to a bloodthirsty killer.
The use of guns would be more merciful to the victim because his suffering could end swiftly is shot in the head. Not so with those who have been killed by the knife.
The citizenry appear to be complacent, possibly with the belief that those who are killed are bad eggs in society. The failure of law enforcers to find the killers leads one to believe that there is a death squad in the city.
The near silence of the authorities on the summary killings reinforces this belief that the killings are with the unwritten sanction of the authorities.
Some may interpret these murders as swift justice, where the murderer is prosecutor, judge and executioner all at the same time.
The near acceptance of these murders by the populace with nary a voice of protests, except from families of these victims, brings the mindset of the people to the borderline of acceptance to these crime.
This is a step away from chaos.
(September 23, 2003 issue)
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