"Still Unresolved"
(Or: "When Justice still continues to haunt the Ampatuans
even inside their cells")
At first, this note is ought to say that the events brought by the Ampatuans was itself an act of savagery. Driven by their desire to remain in power, this local tyrant has killed a total of 58 people, including 32 journalists, simply because of "supporting" a political rival.
It is unsurprising those times, especially that with politicians trying to maintain in power it involves impunity, this massacre was the worst incident of electoral violence in recent Philippine history and remains the single deadliest attack on journalists globally.
However for the administration and its apologists, the case has been resolved given "the concrete efforts of the government in bringing to justice the suspects" if not saying that "Philippine justice system is fair and effective" especially after the guilty verdict on the Ampatuan brothers and companions.
But from these statements, the question is, despite 28 principal suspects and 15 others as accessories to these murders, how come all verdicts have been appealed and 80 other suspects still remain at large? Is the order's declaration simply a means to "shut up" those who are concerned regarding this case? Not surprising especially from an order that fails to promote justice in this time of extrajudicial acts, if not justifies a culture of fear in order to promote a draconian order based on maintaining their interests. What more the thought of shrugging the decision from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation to maintain the classification of that case as 'unresolved'.
Perhaps the call for justice continues to remain as the calls for ensuring the welfare of workers and the right for information; that everyone concerned rather not to forget that kind of catastrophe brought about by these local tyrants and the order that coddles them.