ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS
ON March 22, 2014, four small-scale gold miners in Sitio Campo, Barangay Gata, Caramoan, Camarines Sur, were found lying in a pool of their own blood, apparently, victims of a massacre. Their murder is forever etched as a nightmare in the memory of this village that is blessed with deposits of gold in a town otherwise marketed as a paradise for its white beaches.