The Women, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (W-JPIC) Office of the Good Shepherd Sisters in the Philippine Province issued a statement recently on the Maguindanao carnage.
Committee on
Women, Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (W-JPIC)
Good Shepherd
Sisters -
Boulevard
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Statement on the Maguindanao Carnage
“The
Victims and their families are wailing for Justice! We denounce the immoral GMA Government!”
We are appalled and deeply shocked at the
carnage of 57 innocent people executed by a monstrous private army of a
power-wielding political clan in Ampatuan, Maguindanao on that fateful day of
Our human sensibilities are scarred. We are
outraged by such senseless political violence and culture of “warlordism” and
impunity that has prevailed in our country today.
The GMA Government is willingly complicit
by its inability to urgently act on a crime of such heinous proportions. It even openly brandished deep ties with
alleged butchers in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao.
We demand that truth be dug out and justice
be enforced against the prevailing impunity, corruption and political
warlordism in this government.
We mourn the death and desecration of
journalists, human rights lawyers, innocent children and women who were raped
and mutilated without mercy.
We refuse to be cowered by fear nor paralyzed
by apathy and tokenism.
We refuse to be manipulated by lame excuses
and empty rhetorics by this inept government.
We commit to engage in all possible actions
of support for victims’ families and exhaust all means to help bring to justice
the perpetrators of violence.
We do not want anything to do with an
immoral government in its failure to rein unmitigated greed . for power and conniving with notorious
political allies.
The GMA government perpetuates itself through a
culture of corruption, violence and impunity legitimized by systems and policies crafted for its
desperate survival.
We reject political violence, systemic
corruption , patronage and political warlordism!
We reject the immoral government of Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo!
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For Reference : Sr. Maureen Catabian, RGS-
Women. Justice and Peace and Integrity of Creation (WJPIC) Office Email: maureencat@gmail.com