Fallen 44 Sentiments Engulfed Filipinos Globally #HelpfulHowTo

The Fallen 44 as what I’ve learned from different media; TV, radio, internet and my neighbors who deliberately condemned the killings in Mamasapano, Maguindanao province last 25th of January 2015. Some Filipinos called it massacre of Special Action Forces (SAF) in the clash with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter (BIFF).

There are so many articles, photos, videos, news, interviews, FB postings, etcetera….who made this saddened news into a “raging bull” intended for Pnoy Administration, PNP leaders, MILF, BIFF, and again, etcetera.

Every Filipino seemed to be affected by the killings that forming groups to investigate the case. Some media people were investigating by their own, adding chaos than helping the situation. Everybody wanted to condemn anybody without thinking the consequences when the President gives his statement about this incident.

Political opposition was happy that the Pnoy Administration got embroiled with his governance. Almost, majority felt the killings affected their hearts. What’s the difference when we have to give our leaders an ample time to do their jobs and to trust them to investigate the case?

I think, maybe, just maybe, you already knew the risks to be SAF member, soldier, police or any government forces in combatting bad elements of our beloved country, the Philippines.

The killed 44 elite police commandos in the clash with Moro guerrillas in Maguindanao province sent the government’s agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on the establishment of an autonomous Bangsamoro substate in Mindanao to the brink of collapse amid recriminations over who was responsible for the carnage. The encounter, in which government forces were killed with savage atrocity, took place inside a territory held by the MILF and inflicted the heaviest casualties in more than a decade of desultory talks on the proposed ancestral domain for a Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE). The clash erupted despite a ceasefire agreement between government forces and Moro guerrrillas.

The Aquino Administration declared a period of mourning for the slain policemen, extolled as heroes, but as the corpses in coffins draped in the Philippine flag arrived in Manila for necrological services, the sight ignited public indignation and clamor to scrap the memorandum of agreement on ancestral domain (MOA-AD) amid accusations of treachery by the MILF and that the government sent the policemen to be slaughtered in hostile territory in operations marked by blunders described by the government and its apologists as mere “misencounter.”

The encounter unmasked the fragility and imperfections of the MOA-AD that calls other politicians to review the present agreement that could entirely be given to the peace process. The incident of Fallen 44 results the government officials to address the issue with MILF.

There can be no peace without justice, a leader of the House of Representatives wants multiple murder cases filed against members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) responsible for the bloodbath.

But, if all of us could think it over for hundredths of times, maybe, we could come up something useful for this case. We could devise other ways to solve this case, move forward for the future without pointing fingers to our leaders or anybody else until proven guilty.