The country was stunned and in grief after the news breaks the brutal death of several people including the wife of Buluan Vice Mayor Ismael Mangundadatu, his sister and some relatives, who will file on his behalf his Certificate of Candidacy for Governor of Maguindanao province. They were accompanied by press people and lawyers in a convoy to Shariff Aguak town, where the election office of the province is located when a group of about 100 armed men abducted them. They were killed and some were buried alive along with their vehicles in a land owned by the Ampatuan clan.
The killings are the first major election-related violence in the May 2010 elections, which are still several months away. Most of the victims are women. Mangundadatu believes that the killings were politically motivated. Mangundadatu and Ampatuan are rival political clans in Maguindanao. Mangundadatu is going against the older Ampatuan for the gubernatorial posts of the province. Seeing him as a threat to the political posts that he wants to hold, the older Ampatuan ordered for the liquidation of the people who will file for Mangundadatu’s Certificate of Candidacy.
After seeing the news on television and reading the accounts of the deaths in newspapers, I come to thinking that there is really no good politics. Politics will always be dirty as long as there are people who want to stay in power so much that they would walk the extra mile of liquidating their opponents. Philippine politics is a shame!
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
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