Remember PIME’s Fr. Fausto Tentorio

THE Human Rights watchdog organization, Karapatan, gives the title “Killings continue as the case of Tentorio and Capion remain in the dustbin” to their latest statement. It reminds us of the martyrdom of the Italian priest of the PIME missionary order. The young pregnant Juvy Capion and her two sons were also victims of military operations.

“Four years after Fr. Fausto Tentorio was killed on October 17, 2011, the schools he helped build for the Lumad are now the targets of military operations and are targets for closure. Three years after the Capion massacre on October 18, four more massacres followed. Meanwhile, the cases filed against the perpetrators of the killing and the massacre are not moving. Worse, the AFP-backed paramilitary forces continue to multiply and spread like plague in Lumad communities,” said Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay.