By Mortz C. Ortigoza
I dropped by at
the office of a top cop whose area is dreaded by drug pushers. .
This officer, a down-to-earth person,
has a propensity to order his men to execute countless drug pushers without
even asking the media to cover the corpses that sprawled in different areas of the
local government unit (LGU) since almost three years ago when he assumed office.
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| Another victim of extra judicial killing in the Philippines. PHOTO CREDIT;Noel Alamar |
As a result, drug pushing there
was an all-time low, as horrified pushers absconded, compared to the records of
his predecessors and the neighboring towns who had to grapple with the
proliferation of Methamphetamine Hydrochloride
known in street lingo as shabu.
“When did you learn to kill the bad guys? Who were your idols in
“salvaging (slang for extra-judicial killing”) drug pushers?” I posed to
him.
He said he learned it when he was
assigned at the anti-kidnapping group of the national police when they
apprehended notorious kidnappers that his superiors and colleagues easily
executed them.
“We
kill them there without fanfare. The media did not know about it. We kill them
“para sa bayan” (It means, killing them to reduce their ranks not for media
publication but for deterrence),”
he told me.
“For
example, we nabbed a member of the X Group. We interrogated and even tortured
the member to squeal who were his companion. We asked him to call through the
mobile phone one of them for a meeting in a particular place. When his
colleague arrived, we arrested him. We did the same interrogation and torture
so he would invite another companion and do the same to the second, third and
up to the tenth member”.
