PANSAMANTALANG itabi muna ang talakayan sa pulitika at iba pang usapin ng bansa. Taluntunin natin ang nakalipas. Inabot ba ninyo ang dekada 1960 na kung saan apat na sinehan lang sa downtown Manila ang nagpapalabas ng Tagalog movies – Life, Dalisay, Center at ang Manila Opera House. Wala pa ang SM, Robinson, at iba pang mall. Apat na movie production outfit lang ang gumagawa ng Tagalog movies – Sampaguita Pictures-Vera Perez Productions, Tagalog Ilang-Ilang, Lea Productions, at Nepomuceno Productions?
Kilala ba ninyo si Hilda Koronel at Walter Navarro, Guy and Pip? Vi at Bot? Espie at Eddie? Perla at Romy? Siempre, si Susan at Da King, Amalia at Bobby, Rosemarie at Ricky, Zaldy at Shirley, at Jean at Romano, o silang mga nagkatuluyan at nag-asawa? Wala pa si Pops at Martin at tambalang Aldub. Tanging pasyalan ang Luneta Park at katabing Rizal Park sa Maynila. Malinis pa ang Manila Bay at walang nakakasukang Duterte Dolemite Beach sa kahabaan ng Roxas Boulevard. Sariwa pa ang hangin sa baybay dagat fa Manila Bay at santambak ang sasakyan Matorco, mga double-decked bus sa Roxas Boulevard.
Natatandaan ba ninyo ang panahon na kakaunti lang ang mga kabahayan na may telebisyon at kailangan manood sa kapitbahay ng mga pelikulang Tagalog, Combat, professional wrestling, Student Canteen, Darigold Jamboree, An Evening with Helen Gamboa, Pilita Corrales, Buhay Artista, tang-Tarang-tang? Wala pang Internet at mga gadget. Kakaunti lang ang mga bahay na may telepono at monopolyo pa ito ng PLDT.
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HALAW ang mga sumusunod sa aming aklat “KILL KILL KILL: EJKs in the Philippines; Crimes Against Humanity vs. Duterte Et. Al. at the ICC.” Nasa huling yugto na ako na pagsusulat.
The information noted that Duterte never condemned the spate of mass killings but even took pride that its increased number showed that his war on drugs was a “success.” He conveyed his weird and distorted sense of value that the sudden increase in instances of mass murder was an accomplishment, an achievement in governance. It added:
“In sum, the following propositions are humbly submitted before the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, namely: (1) as a Mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Duterte already committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY through the mass murder or extrajudicial executions under his Davao Death Squad of suspected criminals carried out as a ‘best practice,’ strategy or system for crime control, and (2) as the President on and after 30 June 2016, he merely intended to continue and did continue the commission of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY also carried out under the same ‘best practice’ strategy or system of extrajudicial or summary executions in Davao City, this time in his war on drugs at the national level. In other words, President Duterte, as a Mayor and later as a President, has been ‘repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously’ committing crimes against humanity through mass murder since the time that he was the Mayor of Davao City up to the time when he immediately became the President of the Philippines in his war on drugs at the national level.”
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CONSPIRACY
THE first information submitted to the ICC led with allegations about what could be regarded a conspiracy in the Duterte government to hide and distort the real score about the war on drugs. It narrated the conspiracy in the two chambers of Congress and Duterte and his minions to dissipate the momentum created by the appearance of Edgar Matobato and Arturo Lascanas in the Senate. It described the conspiracy to jail Sen. Leila dela Lima on trumped up charges that she was responsible in the proliferation of illegal drugs in the Muntinlupa national prison. Sen. Richard Gordon, as the newly installed chair of the Senate committee on human rights and justice, cockily refused to allow Matobato to re-appear in the third committee hearing and went to the extent of making a premature conclusion that Matobato was “damaged goods” to justify his refusal. It was claimed that they conspired to weaken the damage created by the revelations of Matobato and Lascanas and these included efforts to end their testimonies before the Senate.
On the contrary, Lascanas, according to the information, made a public confession in the February 20, 2017 press conference at the Senate premises confirming Matobato’s earlier statement “that he was a long-time leader of the dreaded Davao Death Squad, who has been involved in the killing of around 300 persons, upon the order and behest of former Mayor, now Pres. Rodrigo Duterte.” It said that Trillanes took efforts to have Lascanas’s confession to be investigated by the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs, chaired by Sen. Panfilo Lacson. But it led to the Senate reorganization, where the senators, who supported Trillanes’s motion were booted out of their committee chairmanships. It sought to marginalize Duterte’s critics in the Senate and to make it almost impossible to seek local remedies on the spate of EJKs. It said:
“Based on the testimony of Matobato and Lascañas, it is now established by direct firsthand account that President Duterte is the mastermind and leader of the Davao Death Squad when he was still the Mayor of Davao City. If it is the best indication, President Duterte happens to be that same leader and mastermind of the Davao Death Squad who is now the President of the Philippines waging, encouraging and promoting the so-called war on drugs at the national level…
“The situation in the Philippines reveals a terrifying, gruesome and disastrous continuing commission of extra-judicial executions or mass murder from the time President Duterte was the Mayor of Davao City through his Davao Death Squad up to the time that he became the President after 30 June 2016 in his war on drugs at the national level.”
According to the information, Duterte elevated his strategy of killing drug suspects into “best practice.” It said:
“Mayor Duterte was elected and assumed office as President of the Philippines, he intended to continue and in fact did continue, by way of a model or template, the ‘best practice,’ strategy or system implemented by him in Davao City through the Davao Death Squad when he was still the Mayor and, in furtherance of such intent to continue, he expanded its coverage, as President, to the national level in order to implement his campaign promise to eradicate the drug problem in six months…
“President Duterte’s continuation at the national level of the ‘best practice’ strategy or system of crime control implemented by him previously through the Davao Death Squad in Davao City when he was still the Mayor, which is to ‘erase,’ eliminate or kill suspected criminals, is further proven by the same basic elements or hallmarks extant in the extrajudicial executions of drug pushers and users in his so-called war on drugs at the national level. A central and defining element of the ‘best practice,’ strategy or system is, of course, no other than President Duterte himself, what with his criminal character and mindset.“
The 78-page information discussed the “basic material hallmarks or elements” in the summary executions committed by the DDS elements in Davao City and the spate of EJKs when Duterte has become the president. They were “too numerous and too obvious to escape scant attention,” it said. These were not the end, according to the information. It acknowledged the police complicity by falsifying police reports to hide the gruesome nature of EJKs. It said:
“The police are falsifying police spot reports and planting evidence to make it appear that drug personalities fought back and had to be killed as a matter of self-defense. The police will always rely on the falsified reports of their colleagues by according to such report the presumption of regularity in the performance of official duty, as previously asserted in public by no less than Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre. Also, the police will stand by their falsified official version that the drug personality fought back and opened fire justifying self-defense on the part of the police operative, even if witnesses’ account clearly contradicts the police version. President Duterte has pronounced that he will stand by the police no matter what. Relatives and families of victims are afraid to come out due to police reprisal. The fear of reprisal coupled with the pressure the police will bear on the potential victims or their families makes any investigation virtually impossible.”
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