Don’t forget the Ampatuan Massacre

ALTHOUGH the November 23, 2009 massacre in Ampatuan town, Maguindanao, happened about seven months before President B. S. Aquino 3rd assumed power, we cannot but—to a great extent—agree with the Human Rights civil society organization Karapatan’s secretry-general when she angrily denounces him because “his government is shameless. He is impunity personified. His name is Noynoy ‘Impunity’ Aquino."

Those are the words of Cristina Palabay, Karapatan secretary-general. She will say these words today, the eve of the International Day to End Impunity, which is on November 23. That is a dark day in the history of humanity. It is also the anniversary of the Ampatuan Massacre.