By Mortz C. Ortigoza
Policemen were already summarily executing crime delinquents and
other notorious criminals even during the time of President Benigno Aquino III.
One of the police officials told me that when he was a major his superior a
Superintendent (Lieutenant Colonel in the military) asked some of his men –
where the major was not part – to target a narcotics peddler.
“They
found him going to the basketball court when they pumped bullets that killed
him,” my source said.
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| A Catholic student, Kian delos Santos, 17, one of the youngest victims of President Duterte's war-on-drugs. Text and Photo by thesummitexpress.com |
But he was not impressed with the operation; the situation of the
corpse was the same as that murdered sensational teenager Kian delos Santos.
The police “planted” a hand gun beside the cadaver that was clad with a
basketball shorts.
Basketball shorts, for everybody’s knowledge, is made of polyester with
garter that holds it to the waist line.
"How can, salamabit, the short carry a tucked .38 revolver that
weight from 1.59 kilogram to 2.26 kg with bullets without the handgun falling
to the ground for everybody to see?” he told me with with incredulity.
HesusMariaHusep, after I saw the police in Caloocan City declared to
the media of Kian wearing a shorts (some called it as boxer shorts)
I shook my head with disbelief.
“How can a .45 caliber weapon carried by a garter tightened shorts
without the 2 kilogram handgun not falling?” I posed to myself.
Kian was murdered when he was knelling apt for that term “Death Knell”
or he was just herded in a corner and treacherously killed when he was looking
to the ground.
Experts said the bullet trajectories were pumped by the .45 hand gun,
created for its lethality because of the Moro Insurrection in the U.S –Filipino
War, of a cop who was standing behind him while the third bullet that pierced
his left ear was the coup’ d’grace (means a final blow or shot
given to kill a wounded person for the understanding of those who are trike
drivers, plumbers, others who read this column).
I didn’t have issue with recidivists and notorious criminals like drug
pushers being waylaid to death by cops in some dark alleys as they were
effective deterrence to criminality, but for Christsakes, they
should practice prudence in snapping on their prey.
Kian, as many Filipinos believed, was innocent.
Police laboratory experts found him to be negative with bullet powder
burn in his hand.
These outraged did not only ensue in the streets but even in the two
Houses of Congress that even the supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte – the
purveyor of death to dope pushers - were scandalized.
“Tama na po, may test pa ako bukas” begged by the 17 years
old Kian, as recounted by a witness who saw the three cops who mauled him,
would reverberate to the consciousness of the generations to come - just like
South Vietnam's National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan
gained international attention when he right temple shot in 1968 handcuffed
prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Việt Cộng member who killed the wife and
six children of a South Vietnamese military officer as front
cover of Time Magazine.
I was outraged when Kian was murdered thus the lyrics of this song I
scribbled after his death.
(The four stanzas of this song were “robbed” from the melancholic
melody of “You Never Give Me Your Money” composed by John Lennon
and Paul McCartney, while the chorus was a “snatched” from Folk-Rock
Singer-Composer Neil Young and his band Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young or
CSNY’s “Ohio”.
Ohio, according to Wikipidia, was a protest song and counterculture anthem
written and composed by Young in reaction to the Kent State shootings of
students of May 4, 1970, and performed by CSN&Y.
The shootings were committed by members of the Ohio National Guards.
29 guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13
seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered
permanent paralysis.
Please bear with my composition he he he:
Bakit si
Kian Pa?
(Di naman
siya Parojinog Espinosa)
Pag umuwi
daw siya ng bahay
Ibang daan
ang tinatahak niya
Dahil sabi
ng nanay niya may mga adik
sa
kalsada
Dahil sa
naglilipana na mga pushers
Gusto daw
ni Kian maging law enforcers
Para
pagbibit-bitin itong mga pushers
CHORUS
Bakit si
Kian pa ang pinaslang nila?
Hindi
naman siya Parojinog Espinosa
Paano kung
si Kian anak kapatid ninyo?
Ano ang
gagawin ninyo?
Pero ano
ang nangyari?
Si Kian ay
binitbit ng mga enforcers
Rason siya
daw ay isa sa mga pushers
Bakit
nagkaganito General Bato?
Pati
inosente ay kinakatay ng tao niyo
Di ba
dapat ang inaaresto iyong mga nagbebenta ng shabu
(You can
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