Catherine Maynard
30 November 2009
.:Summary:.
Tuesday, November 24, Search teams found 24 more bodies in shallow graves bringing the total to 46 in the recent massacre in the Philippines. The Philippine government declared s state of emergency in the southern regions of the nation following the shooting on Monday, which has been called the worst pre-election violence in Filipino history. The Military has been deployed to the southern regions to attempt to prevent more violence. The kidnapped group included a candidate for governor’s wife and sister, as well as many reporters. Ruthlessly kidnapped, tortured and murdered by an extreme loyalist group. Witnesses blame a local warlord, Ampatuan, who controlled the area for the past decade. Ampatuan controls private army of nearly 500 men, and the suspected group that carried out the attack were loyalists to him.
.:Reaction:.
I think that this radical attack was highly unnecessary, as with all terrorist attacks. I cannot fathom how anything of this nature could be justified in the attacker’s or anyone else’s mind. I feel great remorse for the people whom were brutally murdered and their family’s. The Philippine government is doing a great job I believe in doing their best to prevent future events within this election period and to protect the other innocents of the area, even though as proven over time it is quite difficult to do so because terrorists plan for this heightened security.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/24/philippines.emergency.hostages/index.html
1 comment:
this is awful! why do we still let things like this happen?
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