TODAY is Bonifacio Day. We celebrate heroism and patriotism, but we should also ponder the fact that Filipinos’ killing fellow Filipinos is as old as our history. The recent 11th anniversary of the Maguindanao Massacre is yet another stark reminder of this sad reality.
Murder by riding-in-tandem and by killers who walk into the houses of their targets and shoot them dead escalated in Central Visayas during the 18-month stint as police regional director of Gen. Debold Sinas, now chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP). And it never stopped. BGen. Albert Ignatius Ferro, the Central Visayas PNP head since February, was recently made an adopted son of Cebu City by the city council for his role in fighting Covid-19 and criminality, especially drugs. The city government is thus either oblivious to or satisfied with the number of unsolved extrajudicial killings of Cebu City residents.
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