Judges’ killings mock Aquino’s governance record

WHILE committing our country to the global war on terrorism, President Aquino will do well to also devote some of his attention and energies instead to stopping the wave of killings and assassinations of the nation’s judges—a problem that is as real and immediate as the latest reports from Paris and elsewhere.

This menace at home strikes at the heart of President Aquino’s claim of good governance under his watch. It has sown fear among our people and local communities because it is the nation’s magistrates and justices of the peace—the men of the law themselves—who are being gunned down in broad daylight and whose murders cry for closure.