People’s justice system in Moroland
  Vol. II No. 32 • ISSN 2094-4098 Jan. 17-23, 2011 • P15.00
PASAY COP’S
BRAVERY LED
TO INDIAN MAFIA
Landfill in P
“To serve and protect.” where the alleged alleged power struggle has been engaged that nearly
olice Senior In-
Page 2 spector Renato V.
the mountain!
Apolinario of Pa-
say PNP Station
gave meaning to
this motto in a display of an
uncommon valor that can-
not be found in any police
officer who, pardon the im-
pression, is more likely “to
extort and collect.”
Apolinario, 52,
breathed to near death
after four bullets were
pumped into his body as
he answered his “call of
duty” for a man not his
blood and not his breed.
Apolinario’s act of
pointing his pistol to at
least three men of high-
powered guns saved the
life and liberty of an In-
dian, Manjinder “James”
Kumar, from fellow po-
licemen who attempted to
kidnap the latter in a ten-
sion-filled drama on F. B.
Harrison St., Pasay City,
DILEMMA IN BAGUILAWA -- Residents of Brgy. Baguilawa object the at 3:30 in the afternoon of
proposed construction of a dumpsite by the local government of Bauan, December 20, 2010.
Batangas. The project, if it pushes through, will create environmental Apolinario’s heroics
destruction and poison the spring that is the source of water in the area. saved Kumar. Awed by
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TEMPLE OF DOOM? - The Khalsa Diwan Indian Sikh Temple in Manila
cost the life of its president, Manjinder “James” Khumar.
the display of bravery,
bystanders rushed Apoli-
nario to the nearest hos-
pital without any second
thought.
The act of Apolinario
in pointing his gun and
identifying himself as a
police officer caused a
deadlock of sort: the po-
licemen-kidnappers were
obviously startled by the
sudden show of bravery of
one uniformed man. They
did not expect it.
Kumar saw this and
he, too, summoned his
own courage. He pushed
the Armalite of the police-
man fronting him, then ran
with all his might toward
Apolinario. A few seconds
more, the kidnapping po-
licemen got back to their
senses and sprayed bullets
in the direction of Kumar
and Apolinario.
Apolinario fell on the
spot where he stood his
ground. All but one bullet
that hit found its mark on
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By HERNZ CUARE
the cop’s body. The other these two police badges of
hit Kumar on his right honor.
shoulder.
But block provided by Call of Duty
Apolinario was enough for
Kumar to make good his The call of duty came
escape and disappear. unexpected for Apolinario.
This came while he
What is more? performed his main duty
as the chief of the Motor-
The act of Apolinario ized Anti-Street Criminal-
did not only save the life ity Operatives (MASCO)
of Kumar. It led to the of Pasay City Police Of-
discovery of an unholy al- fice.
liance among policemen In complete uniform
and rogue Indians. and on board his motor-
For this, two honor cycle, he motored to where
medals—Medalya ng Sug- his teams were dispatched
atang Magiting (Wounded only to be surprised along
Personnel Medal) and the way.
Medalya ng Kagalingan While driving along F.
(Medal of Merit)—were B. Harrison St., Apolinar-
pinned on him by his boss, io stopped his motorcycle
Police Director Nicanor because the traffic was not
Bartolome, chief of the moving.
National Capital Region While resting the mo-
Police Office (NCRPO). torcycle on the road, he
Bartolome took time to noticed a commotion be-
visit Apolinario while re- side a white van put to a
cuperating at his house in halt in front of Aliw Inn.
Pasay City just to confer To page 2
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Landfill in the mountain!

By TOTO CAUSING
BARANGAY Baguilawa
in Bauan, Batangas is like
a social volcano ready to
erupt over the threat posed
by their local government
to the lives of the resi-
dents.
The threat, fast becom-
ing present and danger, is
the proposal to construct
and develop a landfill in a
nearby mountain.
The planned dump is
being pushed by the of-
ficials of the town to be
located at an area to be
scraped of trees and that
site sits just above the
spring from which all the
houses in this barangay
beget their fresh water.
It is revolting to the
conscience of all residents
there for this municipal
project that destroy a part
of the entire forest in the
town. That part would be
as big as the requirement
of at least 20,000 dump
trucks of garbage a day
and the access roads for
these dump trucks.
Barangay Chairman
Rommel Cruzat Caguete
told Dyaryo Magdalo that
if this happens, the resi-
dents of his barangay will
be the most prejudiced.
If this landfill project
will happen the source of
the water for the baran-
gay will be contaminated
and would run out. This is
because the trees that pro-
for all residents of Bagu-
ilawa.
The residents support-
ed their barangay officials
strongly but the fears in
their hearts and mind get
more and more each day.
The village head is
worried that despite the
very strong opposition
words never end to circu-
late that the landfill was
almost in place because of
the money of the investor
who they suspected has
already bought the area of
rugged land full of trees
standing just above where
the crystal spring water
flows from.
Additionally, they also
feared that their council-
ors, vice mayor and mayor
have already been paid to
pass an ordinance to allow
the landfill project.
The chairman was
overwhelmingly reelected
in the October 25, 2011
barangay election and the
clear mandate given him
by his people is to stop at
all cost the landfill project.
PhP100-million-a-day
earning project
Words coming to the
officials of the barangay
said that the landfill shall
be designed to serve the
garbage of Metro Manila,
Batangas City, Lipa City
and municipalities, includ-
ing Bauan itself.
They heard that the
landfill must be big be-
To be issued with an
ECC, it has to be con-
firmed by scientific and
technical studies that there
is no damage that may be
caused on the environment
and that a public hearing
must be conducted to de-
termine whether the pro-
posed project would hurt
the sensitivities of the af-
fected residents.
For example, it is
required that landfills
must not be located in a
place where an aquifer or
groundwater or watershed
is located.
These prohibitions are
contained under Section
42 of Republic Act 9003.
The barangay chair-
man told YAKAP, Inc. and
Dyaryo Magdalo that the
report of the study con-
ducted by the technical
men of the Department of
Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) was
manipulated to make it
appear that the site of the
planned landfill is lower in Barangay Baguilawa chairman Rommel Cruzat Caguete (right) in a meeting with YAKAP officers
elevation and the adjacent headed by its president Marcos “Bong” Manlapaz.
spring.
The truth of the mat- of corruption,” exclaimed report, the application for Dyaryo Magdalo that the the proposal,” the baran-
ter as confirmed by the Manlapaz. an ECC was said to have public hearings that were gay chairman lamented.
actual visits of the site by YAKAP is prepar- been approved during the conducted were manipu-
members and officials of ing to file criminal, civil time of former Manila lated that it turned out that Seeking help from PNoy
YAKAP is that the reverse and administrative cases Mayor Lito Atienza as the it was only Barangay Ba-
is true: THE SPRING IS against the officials of DENR secretary. guilawa that is opposing The residents were
LOWER IN ELEVATION the DENR and other pub- the landfill project. supported by YAKAP,
THAN THE SITE OF lic officials who would Manipulated public hearing “I am wondering why Inc. in their desire to bring
PROPOSED LANDFILL. have a hand in the ap- barangays adjacent or cov- their problem to President
“This is despicable! proval of the ECC. The chairman of the ering the landfill project Benigno Simeon Cojuang-
This is the highest form As a result of the false barangay disclosed to was said to have approved co Aquino III.

Pasay cops bravery led to ...

vide the steady supply of cause it was projected
water to the ground water to receive 20,000 dump
table will be cut down to From page 1
trucks a day.
give way for the construc- If one dump truck
tion of the landfill. would pay Php5,000, the He saw one man ish off the brave good cop. a bit and confused. He Center (TOC) received a led by Chief Insp. Faycho
Chairman Caguete income is easily Php100 smashing the butt of a rifle The bad men escaped. cannot believe his eyes call from Southern Police will be conducting police
told Marcos “Bong” Man- million a day for the pri- on a window glass of the They brought along with that a fellow police official District-TOC informing operation within the area.
lapaz, president of Yel- vate owner. van. He saw another man them the white Mazda would do such a despi- them that policemen from Chief Insp. Rolando
low Armies Para Sa Ka- “The money is so big standing in front of a door Friendee (plate no. BDN cable and detestable act of Quezon City Police Dis- Baula, chief of PCP No.
likasan at Proteksyon, Inc. to be refused. This means of the vehicle poking a 479) commandeered from kidnapping. trict (QCPD) were set to 11, asked for a coordina-
(YAKAP, Inc.), that they that the project proponent rifle at Kumar. Kumar’s friends, Ferdi- But he was sure it was conduct a police operation tion sheet but the DAID
have been fighting against can spend up to Php1 bil- The overpowering nand S. Ret and Andy Faycho who was the one in Pasay. cops failed to produce. For
the landfill project for lion as bribes if only to sight did not stop Apoli- Ngie, another Indian. he saw telling him, “Pulis The call specified that this, the DAID cops left
about three years now but ensure that all the officials nario from drawing his Apolinario sustained kami. Opisyal din ako.” the policemen involved in claiming they will get the
it seems that their munici- approve it. pistol. He poked his pis- four gunshot wounds in Nevertheless, Apoli- this alleged police operation required documents. They
pal officials are rejecting tol at the persons armed the body. He was treated nario was now convinced were to come from QCPD’s never came back.
the voices of dissent from False findings of DENR paved with high-powered guns. at San Juan De Dios Hos- that there is indeed a syn- District Anti-Illegal Drug- Witnesses gathered
Baguilawa residents. way for approval of ECC He identified himself as a pital, the same medical dicate involving his fel- Special Operation Task by SIDM swore that they
He said that they policeman. He told them place where Kumar went lows in uniform. Group (DAID-SOTF). heard the criminals iden-
have already submitted An indispensable re- to freeze. for treatment of his bullet And his discovery led It is a standard operat- tifying first themselves as
strongly-worded barangay quirement for any landfill These evil men identi- wound. to the expose that is pain- ing procedure for the PNP police officers and agents
resolution expressing their project is an environmen- fied themselves to Apoli- ful to him for he will be to require coordination of NBI before shooting
strong sentiment against tal compliance certificate nario that they, too, were Unholy alliance of compelled to testify to when one unit is to oper- Apolinario and Kumar.
the project on the grounds (ECC), to ensure that the law enforcers, policemen cops and criminals bust, once and for all, this ate within the area of ju- SIDM also gathered
of environmental destruc- damage to the environ- and NBI agents. particular mafia within the risdiction of another PNP that at 10:00 p.m. of De-
tion and the loss of water ment shall be least or none. Kumar, still young at On January 5, 2011, police organization. unit. This is done to avoid cember 20, the Pasay
31 years old but already while still recuperating Thus, Apolinario pro- misencounter. City PNP received a call
the president of Khalsa from his wounds and se- vided the strongest foun- The Pasay Police’s informing them that a
Diwan Indian Sect, saw an ries of operations, Apoli- dation to the theory that SIDM cops obtained evi- white Mazda (RBU 450)
opportunity to escape. nario watched a television Pasay City Police Office dence that half an hour be- was seen parked beside
Thus, the Indian program of ABS-CBN. formulated while gather- fore the incident, QCPD- the Quezon City Women’s
shoved away the rifle Accidentally or inci- ing pieces of circumstan- DAID-SOTF elements Jail Building inside Camp
pointing at him and ran dentally, the one flashed tial evidence conducted were spotted near Police Karingal.
with all his might toward on the screen was a pro- by its Station Investigation Community Precinct No. 4 Verification with the
his savior, Apolinario. gram showing host Gus and Detection Manage- of Pasay City. LTO through Blackberry
MAGDIWANG As he was about to
reach Apolinario, Kumar
Abelgas interviewing Po-
lice Chief Inspector Edwin
ment (SIDM) performing
tasks directly supervised
This community pre-
cinct is located at the city’s
Traffic Identification Sys-
tem indicated that the
PUBLICATIONS told the cop to protect him T. Faycho. and controlled by chief of public market on Taft Av- license plate RBU 450
Publisher: from the gunmen, insisting This sight sparked police, Senior Supt. Napo- enue. From this place, it belonged to a green Mit-
RONALDO E. RENTA he was being kidnapped. memory to come back to leon Cuaton. would take two to five subishi Delica and not to a
Editorial: Without hesitance, Apolinario and he recog- This syndicate eventu- minutes of travel to the Mazda Friendee van.
TOTO CAUSING Apolinario told Kumar to nized the face of Faycho ally killed Ret and Ngie, crime scene. With this information, a
Editor-In-Chief take cover on his back. as the man who identified both were found with their The SIDM cops estab- team led by Chief Inspec-
Design & Layout: At this point, bullets himself during the kidnap- bodies already desecrated. lished that at 3:52 p.m. or tor Joey Goforth was dis-
RONALDO B. HERICO came spraying on them, ping incident as saying: about 22 minutes after the patched to Camp Karingal.
Disclaimer:  hitting Apolinario in the “Pulis kami. Opisyal din Diligent probe done shooting, QCPD-DAID- But when Goforth’s
  All news articles and opinions expressed by the writers chest and other parts of his ako.” by Pasay PNP SOTF operatives appeared team arrived in Camp Kar-
are entirely their own and do not reflect the opinion of the body. He fell to the pave- Faycho was then being at the Police Community ingal, they were informed
publisher, the management or the editor of this publication. ment. While gasping for presented in that TV show The work of the Pa- Precinct No. 11 located that the Mazda van was
All Rights Reserved: breath, he ordered Kumar as the chief of Quezon say PNP led it to discover behind the Mall of Asia, already driven out of the
  No part of this publication may be copied or reproduced to escape. City Police District-Anti that before the shooting Bay Blvd. camp by an unidentified
nor translated in any language or form for commercial pur- Seeing Apolinario was Illegal Drugs-Special Op- incident last December These DAID-SOTF man.
poses without prior written permission from the publisher still alive, one of the gun- erations Task Force. 20, the Pasay City Po- policemen requested to put Meanwhile, Ching Lio
and its writers or columnists. men ordered another to fin- Apolinario was stunned lice Tactical Operations into records that their team To page 7
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Undying heroism of
Sgt. Jose Calugas By HERNZ CUARE

W
AR medal is a quest of every soldier in the battlefield, but it can only be acquired by someone who
displays a death-defying stunt or somewhat like challenging the fangs of death. Just like what a
Filipino soldier, Captain Jose Calugas, did during World War II that the Americans can never forget.
Until his death on January 18, 1998 in Tacoma, Washington DC, the heroism of Calugas was not
buried by the Americans. As a retired captain of the United States Army in 1957, Calugas was prized
with military honors at St. Leo’s Catholic Church at 13th street in Tacoma.
The gallantry of Calugas was demonstrated on January 6, 1942 in the Filipino-American war against the Japa-
nese forces near Barrio Culisin in the province of Bataan.
His unit took over the vacuum left in the battlefield when a portion of the United States Army Forces in the Far
East (USAFFE) withdrew together with the 26th Cavalry Regiment of the Philippine Scouts and the 31st Infantry
Regiment.
Calugas, assigned with the 88th Field Artillery of the Philippine Scouts, was then a mess sergeant in charge of
a group of soldiers preparing the day’s meals, or for clarity, he’s in command of the kitchen known as KP Duty.
Japanese.
While working in a
Japanese-controlled rice
mill, Calugas set up a spy
network for Philippine
guerrillas, coordinating
with a guerrilla unit, #227
Old Bronco. As an offi-
cer of the guerrilla unit,
he participated in the at-
tack on the Japanese gar-
rison at Karangalan. His
unit fought in the contin-
ued campaign against the
Japanese, which campaign
eventually led to the lib- HIGHEST HONOR -- Jose Calugas, Sr., the first Filipino Sergeant of the
eration of the Philippines. Philippine Scouts to receive America’s highest award, the Congressio-
After the liberation of nal Medal of Honor, for combat valor during the Battle of Bataan in 1942.
the Philippines in 1945
Calugas finally received Sill, Oklahoma. Upon States’ Army, Calugas on January 18, 1998 at the
the Medal of Honor that completion, he received technically was not an age of 90. He was buried
was approved even before additional training as an American citizen. at Mountain View Memo-
The US Congressional Medal of Honor
the new campaign had be- artilleryman and then as- Following the Spanish- rial Park in Tacoma, Wash-
During a battle on Jan. tense phase of Imperial before Calugas could be gun to start. signed to the 24th Artillery American War in 1898, ington.
16, 1942, Calugas noticed Japan’s invasion of the decorated with the Medal The Medal was pre- Regiment of the Philippine Philippine residents were Within the family
that one of his unit’s guns Philippines during World of Honor. sented to him by US Army Scouts at Fort Stotsenburg, classified as US nationals. housing area of Fort Sam
had been silenced, and its War II. Calugas had to follow General George Marshall. Pampanga. It was only in the 1934 Houston, Texas, a street
crews were all lying life- During the final stages the commander’s order to Calugas subsequently While stationed at Fort Tydings-McDuffie Act, or known as Calugas Circle
less on the ground. of the battle and after re- surrender and along with accepted a direct com- Stotsenburg, he married Philippine Independence was dedicated in his hon-
He studied the battle- peated assaults and artil- the other prisoners of war mission from the United and raised a family. His Act, that Filipinos were or, with his family present,
field as well as the move- lery fire by Japanese forc- they took the long walk States Army. He was later next unit was the 88th reclassified as non-US in 1999.
ments of fellow soldiers. es, the communications from Mariveles, Bataan to assigned to the 44th In- Field Artillery Regiment citizens. His Medal of Honor
He observed that no one While serv- was given to the Fort’s
has the heart to run across ing in Okinawa, museum for safekeeping.
the battlefield to handle Calugas com- In 2006, a 36-unit
gun against the advancing pleted the pro- apartment building, de-
adversaries. cess of becom- signed for low-income
He waited for his supe- ing a naturalized and disabled residents was
riors’ order for the soldiers United States dedicated as the “Sgt. Jose
to salvage and fire the sta- citizen. Calugas, Sr. Apartments”
tioned gun, but his waiting When Calu- in High Point, Seattle
has only worsened the po- gas eventually On Memorial Day in
sition of his unit. retired from the 2009, his memory was
Without orders, Calu- army with the honored at the Living War
gas persuaded his 16 bud- rank of cap- Memorial Park on a me-
dies to run and crawl a tain in 1957, he morial that had previously
kilometer across the bat- moved to Taco- been established.
tlefield under severe fire to ma, Washington Can there be another
be able to reach and man with his family. Filipino, Christian or Mus-
the US gun. After retiring, he lim, who can duplicate the
He and only one un- went to school feat of this Medal of Hon-
named soldier were brave and defenses of the allies Camp O’Donnell, a prison fantry Regiment that oc- of the Philippine Scouts. and earned a de- or recipient?
enough to run, ditch, crawl on Bataan peninsula had camp in the province of cupied Okinawa, Japan. He was a sergeant with gree in Business Adminis- Yes, it is believed.
for a number of times in been almost completely Tarlac, or now popularly When the unit disbanded Battery B when the United tration from the University As gallant as the Chris-
the midst of hovering bul- destroyed. known as the “Death in 1947, he was assigned States and the Philippine of Puget Sound in 1961. tian fighters who graced
lets until they touched the On the last two days, March.” to the Ryukyu Command Commonwealth declared He then worked for Boe- the country, Moro brave
barrel of the US gun. the entire Allied defense The Death March was on Ryukyu Islands in the war with Japan in 1941. ing Corporation. men have proven to the
Calugas and his mate collapsed, clogging all a 63-mile march with no South China Sea where he His unit was mobilized for To further his educa- world that they are a tough
fixed the gun and sprayed roads with refugees and food, only a sip of water. remained until 1953. duty and sent to Bataan in tion with the new career, nut to crack!
blazing bullets, holding fleeing troops. It was characterized by Other than the Medal December 1941. he got involved in several In fact, Bangsamoro
off the Japanese forces By April 8, 1942, the physical violence and mur- of Honor, the 27 years of Although he had been veterans groups within men are still fighting for
in a whole afternoon of most senior US com- ders: specifically behead- military service (1930- born in a US territory, and the Seattle and Tacoma the cherished dream to
gunbattle, giving enough mander on Bataan, Major ing, throat-cutting, shoot- 1957) of this Ilonggo had fought for the United area. He died in Tacoma freedom!
time for the US troops to General Edward “Ned” P. ing, death by bayonet, were decorated with Dis-

Privileged Spits ....

regroup and dig into the
enemies’ line.
When the battle was
silenced by the darkness
of the night, Calugas re-
turned to the mess hall to
feed the starving soldiers.
Calugas was recom-
mended by his superiors
for the United States mili-
tary’s highest decoration
for valor, the Medal of
Honor.
The Battle of Bataan
represented the most in-
King, Jr., recognized the
futility of further resis-
tance.
The next day, approxi-
mately 76,000 Filipinos
and American troops sur-
rendered to a Japanese
army of 54,000 men un-
der Lt. General Masaharu
Homma. This was the
single largest surrender of
one of its military forces in
American history.
The surrender of the
Allied forces happened
rape, disembowelment, tinguished Unit Citation,
rifle-butt beating, and Prisoner of War Medal, from page 4
deliberate starvation or Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Medal (with two service Recommendation 2011 in Malaysia.
dehydration on the week-
stars), World War II Vic- to MILF panel I also believe that the Fiilipino
long continual march in
tory Medal, Philippine Christians will embrace this idea as
the tropical heat. Falling
Defense Medal and Philip- The proposition I state here is being their official act of repentance for the
down or inability to con-
pine Liberation Medal. earnestly recommended to the MILF past sins, recognition of the Moro’s
tinue moving was a death
Calugas was born in panel headed by Mohaqer Iqbal. blood and lands, and respect for the way
sentence, as was any de-
Barrio Tagsing, Leon, Il- I strongly believe that if I am given they worship.
gree of protest.
oilo, Philippines on De- the full opportunity to explain this idea When this is accepted, I can see the
After the Death March,
cember 29, 1907. In 1930, to the MILF panel, I believe I can con- whole land singing the song, “There is
Calugas spent nine months
he enlisted in the United vince the Moro people to embrace this not a Christian Filipino. There is not a
in a prison camp until
States Army and received as their main talking point when the Muslim Filipino. There is not an indig-
January 1943 when he was
his basic training at Fort peace negotiation begins on February 9, enous Filipino. There is one Filipino.”
released to work for the
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Full but delegated sovereignty

& people’s justice system in Moroland
IF I were to decide what
peace pact should be
done in Mindanao, I will
insist that the Muslims be
granted full but delegated
sovereignty over their
territories and its justice
system should be what
I could call as “people’s
justice system.”
By a legislative fiat,
or an act of the Congress,
this can be done without
going against the prin-
ciples of the present Con-
stitution.
This proposal will
answer the long story of
blindness to pay for the
sins committed for at
least four centuries and
give recognition and re-
spect to the humanity
and religion of the Moros
who have long deserved
to be heard by the deaf-
ness in us Christians.
These sins were con-
stituted in part by the tens
of thousands of natives
killed by the Spanish
conquistadores who used
Visayas and Luzon na-
tives to invade them.
These sins were con-
stituted in part by other
tens of thousands of Mo-
ros killed by the Ameri-
can occupation forces
that also used Visayas
and Luzon natives as part
of their infantries in their
bid to subjugate the Da-
tus and their men.
These sins were con-
stituted in part by the
hundreds of thousands
of deaths caused by the
invasion by the national
government when Mar-
cos sent in soldiers from
Visayas and Luzon to
stop the call for freedom
of the Moro National
Liberation Front (MNLF)
led by Nur Misuari.
These types of sins
were repeated when then
President Joseph Estrada
staged all-out war against
Moro Islamic Libera-
tion Front (MILF) that led
to the recovery of Camp
Abubakar. Tens of thou-
sands were killed in this
particular official action of
the national government.
These deaths were ag-
gravated by the Japanese
occupation forces during
World War II.
Past is past and those
lives lost can never be res-
urrected to life once more.
We can never repay for
these sins but we can re-
pent and beg for forgive-
ness from the Moros and
hope they will forgive us
Christians.
But giving them full
but delegated sovereignty
whereby they can deter-
mine their own fate with
only the Constitution as the
limitation will reinforce the
faith in the virtue of forgiv-
ing.
Sins of the past were
also constituted by other
acts.
The American colonial
government in the 1930s
sent in Christians from
Visayas and Luzon to oc-
cupy lands in Mindanao,
Palawan and Sulu through
homestead patents of 24
hectares each.
After independence
was granted by the USA on
July 4, 1946, the national
government again sent in
Christian settlers from the
Visayas and Luzon, mas-
sively, during the presi-
dency of Magsaysay by
means of luring them out
of Hukbalahap rebellion
with homestead patents of
12 hectares each.
As a result, the Moros
and the indigenous people
lost substantial part of their
ancestral domains to waves
of migration of Christians
from the Visayas and Lu-
zon.
Yes, we can no longer
give back the lands they
lost to Christian Filipinos,
but the national govern-
ment can always deliver an
official statement of apol-
ogy through the Congress
of the Philippines to be re-
iterated in flag-ceremonies
in all schools in Mindanao,
particularly in lands now
belonging to Christian set-
tlers.
As men of hearts, too,
the Moro people will em-
brace the virtue of giving
in order to make life worth
living. And I believe that
if the national government
will pass a law to give
reparation payments for all
the lands lost to Christian
settlers, the Moro broth-
ers will always be ready to
embrace us Christians as
their brothers in blood and
brothers in need.
And giving them full
but delegated sovereignty
over what remained of their
territories will always be a
welcome road to peace.
And if this is a road to
peace, we all must take that
path. As Mahatma Gandhi
said, “There is no road to
peace. Peace is the path.”
Along with these enu-
merated and irreversible
sins of the past, the national
government dominated by
Christian politicians and
the Christian settlers ex-
hibited discriminatory acts
and behaviors embodied in
the laws, acts in the actual
implementation of laws,
policies and rules that the
benefits given just trickle
down to the Muslims, acts
and discriminatory stereo-
types of belittling dignity
when Moro people come
passing by, and other acts
of bias that are revolting to
conscience. Yes, we Chris-
Privileged spits
By TOTO C. CAUSING
tians have never thought:
“What if we Christians
were born Muslims and the
Moros were born Chris-
tians?”
These deeply-rooted
biases are the general ex-
planation why you can hear
extremist Abu Sayyaf be-
heading Christian marines
whenever they would have
the opportunity. These are
the reasons why you can
hear Christian hostages
also got their heads falling
on the ground, too. These
are the reasons why you
can hear brutalities done by
them whenever they would
have opportunities.
We condemn these
acts because they are truly
revolting. But have we
Christians ever condemned
Christians doing the same
to Moros?
Nevertheless, if we
compare these brutalities
done by the Moros to the
centuries of madness that
had bedeviled them we can
readily see that the former
pales too far in comparison
to the latter.
In the present, we hear
full details of brutalities
brought forth by the high-
technology communication
facilities. But it is very
reasonable to conclude also
that the brutalities of the
past could have been worse
had they been reported.
Yes, it is very sure that
the Spanish officers and
their soldiers composed
mainly of Christian Filipi-
nos must have committed
detestable and despicable
acts against the fighters and
residents of Lanao, Cota-
bato and Sulu archipelago.
Yes, I also believe that
the American soldiers must
have also committed acts
that are revolting to con-
science when they invaded
Mindanao and Sulu. Re-
member that the .45 pistol
was invented because of
the “juramentados” of the
Datus whose kris swords
even cut into uselessness
the rifles the Yankees used.
Yes, I also believe in the
stories of Ilaga (a militia of
Marcos composed mainly
of my fellow Ilonggo set-
tlers in Mindanao) eating
the ears or other flesh of
their Muslim captives in
the 1970s.
Can we Christians now
stand up and have an un-
common bravery to ask for
forgiveness although we
see our marines beheaded
and pastors or priest brutal-
ly killed and although it is
almost impossible for them
to forgive us?
Yes, I believe there is
such a thing as love that
springs eternal for one who
knows how to repent and
ask for forgiveness.
And if this full but del-
egated sovereignty is given
the Muslims in the South,
the act of great peace will
open the door.
The full but
delegated sovereignty
The full but delegated
sovereignty I am propos-
ing to give to the Muslims
is one where the people of
the Bangsamoro land will
have full discretions of
what they would do with
respect to all aspects of
governance, civil and polit-
ical rights, rights to explore
and develop and utilize the
national wealth and other
forms of natural resources,
rights to impose and col-
lect taxes, rights to have
own police forces, rights
to education curricula, and
almost all other rights.
An organic act for
Bangsamoro may be
passed by the Congress to
give it the right to pass its
own laws and for it to be
exempt from the applica-
tion of the laws supposed
to be for the entire Philip-
pines with only the Phil-
ippine Constitution as the
limit.
Thus, with this organic
act it can now have the
power to create provinces,
towns, cities and barangays
and it shall be governed by
a Governor General. It can
supervise its own elections
through the delegated pow-
er form the Commission
on Elections. It can have
its own judicial governor
under the delegated powers
from the Supreme Court.
It can determine its taxa-
tion and customs schemes
with only the Constitution
as the limitations. It can
do almost endless acts with
only the Constitution as the
limitation.
In terms of military,
the national government
will still be the one that
will provide them external
defenses against foreign
invaders and terrorists
because the Constitution
wills that there will only
be one armed force in the
Philippines.
Now, for every income
the Bangsamoro will get
from taxes, fees, customs
and utilization of the nation-
al wealth and other natural
resources, it will be shared
with the national govern-
ment on the proportion ac-
ceptable to both parties.
Of course, the Moros
shall retain the right to
vote for president, vice-
president and senators
in national elections and
will still retain the right
to send their own district
congressmen to fight for
their welfare in the na-
tional government.
People’s justice system
Since it is not repug-
nant to the Constitution, I
will put in place a justice
system where the pres-
ent courts, including the
Shari’ah courts, shall be
peopled by the represen-
tatives chosen by raffle
from the Muslim people
themselves.
These people shall
form as a group of laymen
who will adjudge who are
telling the truth and who
are not in all cases. The
judges in these courts, in-
cluding Shari’ah courts,
shall perform the job of
applying the laws on the
truth found by the lay-
men-jurors.
To ensure that the
non-royal blooded Moros
have fair fighting chance
in every criminal com-
plaint to be determined
to be brought to court for
trial or not, the fiscal’s
or the Ombudsman’s job
of saying who should be
tried in court shall also be
given to the representa-
tives chosen from Mus-
lim voters.
Each group of those
picked to perform the
duty of saying who
should be charged in
court in every Muslim
province shall serve for
a term of six months and
their faces and names
shall be hidden from the
Moro communities so as
to ensure their indepen-
dence of deciding who
should be charged in
court and who should be
spared.
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Jerry’s Blogs Congressman of

Happy faces often
await a congressman
in a poker room at Pan
Pacific Hotel in Malate,
Manila.
He’s the favorite of
poker players. He’s not
minding throwing away
P1 million in a poker
play. No sweat.
After feeling content
of losing a million in
cards, he’ll try his luck
on billiard tables. His
rivals, hustlers that be,
are all smiles to the ears.
They have their all night
blessings, courtesy of
Mr. Congressman.
Yes, Mr. Congress-
man affords himself los-
ing millions per night for
his favorite – gambling.
Anyway, what is
three million pesos for
Mr. Congressman? He
has banks of money. For
him, it’s just chicken
By JERRY S. YAP
wings. MOBILE PATROL 403, a
Hope, you are familiar certain “BALYENTE” and
with Mr. Congressman. one known as “PO3 AK-
Aside from poker and 47 SOLOSA.” They were
billiard, Mr. Congressman reported to be like shining
is fond of boxing, too. blades.
They’re too sharp. As
“Kotong” PNP-HPG in if they can slice apart bus
CaLaBaRZon (Paging: C/Supt and jeepney operators
Leonardo Espina) by mere standing by the
roadside, especially in the
I am calling the atten- areas of Lucena City to
tion of PNP Highway Pa- Batangas City.
trol Group (HPG) director, A failure to hand over
Chief Supt. LEORNADO the “tong” will result in
ESPINA. unreasonable traffic vio-
Sir, some of your men lations of drivers of bus,
are mulcting from pas- jeepney and GT express.
senger buses in Southern By the way, Gen. Es-
Tagalog. pina and SOLOSA are al-
Preying on “KOLO- ways brandishing an AK-
RUM” passenger buses 47, a non-official firearm
is a “no-no.” How much of the PNP.
more if HPG men pest on PNP-HPG Region IV-A
buses maintained by legiti- chief, Sr. Supt. ANTONIO
mate bus operators? GARDIOLA Jr., the noto-
We received a number riety of your men is a lethal
of complaints against HPG insult to your name.
poker & billiard?
Act now, SSupt. Gar- BOGUS COMPANIES of “TANGING INA!” that day, somebody com-
diola before GEN. ESPI- are used by Betty Chu- The witches can even plained. The number
NA stretches out arms. wawa and Anna Sey in dictate the Board of Spe- of the client had been
the documents they pro- cial Inquiry. called, and due to his/
Betty and Anna, Jacks of all cessed. They are charging her absence, long queues
trades in BI their clients P90,000 to SSS Lucena clarifies of numbers had been
P120,000. served, burying his/hers.
The operation of two Most of their clients The officials of Social It was quite impossible
fixers–witches BETTY are Chinese nationals who Security System, Lucena to prioritize him/her for
CHUWAWA and ANNA are issued with missionary City clarify the complaint others might also voice
SEY–in the Bureau of Im- visa despite their not being on the discourteous and their protest.
migration (BI) Main office missionaries. arrogant acts of their teller Anyway, the problem
holds no bar. Betty Chuwawa is the and security guard. was solved that day.
They surpass the im- godmother of GLENDA They ask for forgive- To the transacting
possible. With closed eyes, and SOCKY, owners of a ness, and if ever there’s parties at SSS Lucena,
they can process all kinds travel agency. The travel such incident, they assure if ever you have al-
of visas. You name it, they agency is played by finger- that it was just an ISO- ready been issued your
can do it! From tempo- strings of Betty’s syndi- LATED CASE. number, finish first your
rary visitor’s visa, recog- cate. They clarify that in transaction before roam-
nizance visa, 13-A, quota Numbers of BI officials all SSS branches, num- ing around or going to
visa, SRRV visa to 9G. For are wondering what magic bers issued in queues are the CR.
them, it’s just a piece of the two witches have that required in transacting So this means that
cake, especially that they they process their transac- business. This is a normal even if you cannot stop
now have the right con- tions at the BI-OCOM in practice to avoid disarray your urge of peeing, stay
nection to the BI-OCOM. a too loose and too fast in public office for equal where you are for your
One that the Congress mode? service to the transacting number might be called
has to investigate is the 9G Simple answer: They public. without you being pres-
visa or employment visa. are “TANGING ANAK” It so happened that on ent.
 Jan. 17-23, 2011
Presidents unmake and make rebels
THE end, as well as
the beginning, of Mus-
lim rebels in Southern
Mindanao is courtesy of
Philippine presidents.
This may sound irra-
tional, but it is true.
Former Scout Rang-
er Commanding Gen-
eral Danilo Lim (ret.)
unveils this fact.
In my personal talk
with Lim, he reveals that
the existence of Muslim
rebels – the Moro Na-
tional Liberation Front
and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front – had
long been concluded if
not for the blessing of
the country’s former
presidents, Corazon
“Cory” Aquino and Glo-
ria Macapagal-Arroyo,
and now by President
Noynoy Aquino who
opens the door of peace
for our Muslim brothers.
Lim, who had served
the Armed Forces of
the Philippines and for
decades had fought the
Muslim rebels, recalled
his fierce battles in Min-
danao that powdered
camps and trails.
Muslim combatants,
in heavy bombardments
that happened twice
during the regimes of
former presidents Fer-
dinand Marcos and Jo-
seph Estrada, were sent
to nowhere like rats,
hiding from their hunt-
AS the resumption of the
peace talks between the
Government of the Re-
public of the Philippines
(GRP) and the Moro Is-
lamic Liberation Front
(MILF) draws near in
Kuala Lumpur, Malay-
sia, I hope that a Final
Peace Agreement simi-
lar to the one signed by
the government and the
Moro National Libera-
tion Front (MNLF) will
be achieved, too. The re-
sumption has been set to
start on this February 9.
The good thing with
the GRP-MNLF Final
Peace Agreement is that
when it was signed on
September 2, 1996 the
founder of the MNLF,
Chairman Nur Misuari
personally signed the
pact in the presence of
the official representative
of the Organization of
the Islamic Conference
(OIC).
And if the MILF pact
is approved, it is differ-
ent in the sense that its
founding chair, Ustadz
Salamat Hashim, will
no longer be around. His
successor Chairman Al
Haj Murad Ebrahim will
be the one who will wit-
ness the signing of the
deal that hopefully would
stop once and for all the
fratricidal war in Min-
danao that has brought
sufferings to the thou-
sands of Bangsamoro
people.
It may be recalled
Ustadz Salamat, a well-
known Islamic theolo-
gian who graduated from
Al Azhar University in
Cairo, Egypt died of a
ers in tanks and in full-
battle gears. It was the end
of MNLF and MILF.
But, alas, the tide
slowed back following the
power grabs that happened
twice: Marcos to Cory and
Estrada to Arroyo.
In recalling his youth
at warfront, Lim credited
Marcos for the victory of
government forces against
Muslim rebels in Mindanao.
The rebels were left
with no place to hide, and
their leaders were forced
to abandon their folds.
Lim was convinced that it
was the end of rebellion in
Mindanao. But the unex-
pected turn of event sent
soldiers to a weary march
back home for Marcos had
lost his grip of power and
Cory sat on the throne.
Cory ordered the coun-
try’s soldiers to abandon
the territories of Muslim
rebels and honor the wis-
dom of peace.
Cory negotiated with
the remaining leaders of
Mulim rebels, like Nur
Misuari of the MNLF who
was later appointed as
governor of the Autono-
mous Region in Muslim
Mindanao.
Probably, with the pur-
pose of empowering her
presidency by forming
armed alliances, Aquino
welcomed the idea of res-
urrecting the Muslim rebel
groups. She caused the
Jannarally
speaking
By JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL
heart ailment somewhere
in the second district of
Lanao del Sur in 2003.
He was born in Baran-
gay Cudal, Pagalungan,
Maguindanao. After fin-
ishing Islamic theology, he
helped Chairman Misuari
organize the MNLF in the
early 1970s and became
the vice chairman. Howev-
er, they parted ways due to
irreconcilable ideological
differences that led to the
birth of the MILF in 1980.
Sometime also in 1997,
it was my first time to
meet Ustadz Salamat at his
sprawling Camp Abubakar
Asiddik, This columnist
happened to be in the me-
dia entourage of former
House Speaker Jose de
Venecia Jr. in that visit to
the camp.
Our entourage was di-
vided into two groups. We
boarded two identical Lear
jets. It was my first time
to board such a small jet
plane that travelled so fast.
We arrived in just an hour
or more at the Awang Air-
port in Maguindanao prov-
ince. Then we motored to
Camp Abubakar, the for-
mer MILF high headquar-
ters situated in the area of
Matanog municipality.
It was during the time
of former President Jo-
seph Estrada that this main
bastion of the MILF was
captured by the govern-
ment. Estrada ordered the
military to launch an all-
out war against the MILF
freedom fighters.
After a barrage of bom-
bardment and military as-
sault on the MILF mujahi-
deen, Camp Abubakar had
fallen and on July 10, 2000
withdrawal of government
troops from the battlefield
and the former strongholds
of rebels were returned to
them.
Unconclusively, the
armed alliances of Aquino
with the rebels triggered
the unexpected birth of the
Reform the Armed Forc-
es Movement or RAM,
a group of soldiers that
launched series of coup d’
etat in late ‘80s. RAM lead-
ership was credited to for-
mer Army colonel and now
Senator Gringo Honasan
but Lim belies this credit.
Admitting that he was
one of the top honchos of
RAM, Lim dislodges Ho-
nasan, saying that his for-
mer comrade was never in
the forefront of the upris-
ing against the administra-
tion of Cory.
Dismayed by the
armed revolt of RAM, Lim
spearheaded the group, the
Young Officers Union or
YOU, that sought reform
in the Armed Forces of the
Philippines (AFP) under
the reign of Cory. But their
cause also fell on deaf
ears. They failed.
the government totally
liberated Camp Abubakar
and drove out up to the last
MILF mujahideen from
the camp.
On this same day Presi-
dent Estrada arrived at the
camp to lead a symbolic
flag-raising ceremony, al-
though a day earlier the
Philippine flag was already
hoisted near the madrasah
(Islamic school) adjacent
to the MILF’s Abdulrah-
man Bedis Memorial
Military Academy. I can
recall also that it was in the
compound of this MILF
military academy where I
performed my Asr (after-
noon prayer) at past 3:00
pm together with some of
MILF combatants.
The visit of Estrada to
the fallen Camp Abubakar
was criticized by Muslim
ummah (community) af-
ter newspaper reports said
that Estrada celebrated the
government’s victory over
the Moro rebels’ bastion
with several bottle of beers
and feasted on a lechon or
roasted pig.
What added an insult
to an injury according to
a friend from Maguin-
danao, Estrada and the
soldiers had their instant
party inside the madrasah
where an Ustadz (Muslim
teacher) used to impart
the teachings of Islam to
their students. The ma-
drasah was situated just a
few meters away from the
mosque.
My memory of the
Camp Abubakar visit was
deleted just like any data
from the hard disk of a
computer when former
Malacañang occupant
Hernz quarry
By HERNANI CUARE
When the term of Aqui-
no expired, former presi-
dent Fidel Ramos held the
power.
Ramos harnessed the
alliances started by Cory,
and worst, he allegedly
backed the armed band of
hooligans, the dreaded Abu
Sayyaf.
As confessed by former
senator Aquilino “Nene”
Pimentel Jr., “the Abu
Sayyaf partisans were giv-
en military intelligence ser-
vices IDs, safehouses, safe-
conduct passes, firearms,
cell phones and various
sorts of financial support.”
His informant Edwin
Angeles, a leader of the
Abu Sayyaf in Basilan,
told him that the Abu Sayy-
af was responsible for the
razing down of the town of
Ipil in then Zamboanga del
Sur (now within the new
province of Zamboanga
Sibugay) in early 1995.
The Abu Sayyaf raiders
were reportedly provided
with military vehicles,
mortars and assorted fire-
arms.
Ramos was president
from 1992 to 1998.
Give us our share
from oil drill in Sulu
Gloria Arroyo renamed it
as Camp Iranun in 2005,
perhaps in honor of the
peaceful Iranun tribe of
Maguindanao.
Subsequently it be-
came a “peace zone” and
residents have since been
witnessing tremendous
pouring in of local and
foreign-funded projects
meant to complement the
efforts of accelerating the
socio-economic growth of
local communities.
Muslims in the Sulu Archi-
pelago demand share from oil
drilling in Sulu Sea
The Muslims in the
Sulu Archipelago, includ-
ing the Tausug people of
the Province of Sulu and
the Sama of Tawi-Tawi are
demanding their fair share
from the oil drilling being
conducted by Exxonmobil
Exploration and Produc-
tion Philippines in the Sulu
Sea.
Rep. Tupay Loong of
the First District of Sulu
introduced House Reso-
lution No. 30, dubbed a
“Resolution directing the
appropriate House Com-
mittees to conduct an in-
quiry, in aid of legislation,
into the oil drilling explo-
rations conducted at the
Sulu Sea.”
Loong divulged that the
Exxonmobil Exploration
and Production Philippines
had started drilling its ex-
ploration well in Sulu Sea
under the Department of
Energy Service Contract
(SC-56) in October 2009.
Loong’s Resolution
No. 30 stated that Sulu Sea
is part of the territorial wa-
Marites D. Vitug and
Glenda M. Gloria named
three military and police
officers as coddlers or han-
dlers of the Abu Sayyaf
in their book, Under the
Crescent Moon: Rebel-
lion in Mindanao. One was
commanding general of
the Marines at that time,
Brig. Gen. Guillermo Ruiz;
the other two were former
Chief Supts. Leandro Men-
doza and Rodolfo Men-
doza.
Ramos finished his
term and Estrada reigned.
Estrada refused to fol-
low the path of Cory and
Ramos.
There were reports
that an international ter-
rorist group al-Qaeda led
by Osama Bin Laden had
extended logistic support
to Islamic Extremist ASG.
Al-Qaeda also reportedly
trained ASG men in mak-
ing bombs.
Estrada, believing that
Muslim rebels had no use
to his administration for
they had pledged loyalty
to the past administrations,
ordered heavy bombard-
ment of their strongholds
ters and national patrimo-
ny of the Province of Sulu,
one of the five component
provinces of the Autono-
mous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM).
The Tausug congress-
man emphasized that any
contract entered into by
the national government
pertaining to the Sulu Sea
should respect the primary
concern of the people of
Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.
This position is even
strengthened by Republic
Act No. 9054 or the new
Organic Act of the ARMM
whereby the people of the
Sulu Archipelago is given
the opportunity to partici-
pate in decision-making.
Finally, Rep. Loong in-
formed the Department of
Energy that the Muslims in
Mindanao should benefit
out of this oil drilling by
virtue of the Law on Na-
tional Economy and Patri-
mony.
Gov. Sadikul Sahali of
the Province of Tawi-Tawi,
in a recent meeting with
this columnist, said Exx-
onmobil has been conduct-
ing oil exploration near the
town of Mapun (formerly
Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi)
and this has no proper con-
sultation with his people by
conducting public hearing.
“We are not properly
informed by the Depart-
ment of Energy in particu-
lar about the activity of
Exxonmobil. There was no
public hearing (that was)
conducted but merely pub-
lic information,” Sahali
told this columnist.
Somehow, the Muslims
in the Sulu Archipelago
should be grateful to Rep.
Vol. II No. 32
until Camp Abubakar fell
under the control of gov-
ernment forces.
Camp Abubakar is a
32,000-hectare land inhab-
ited by some 5,000 MILF
armed men.
When the war end-
ed, Estrada and soldiers
roasted pigs in celebration
of victory inside Camp
Abubakar.
The Muslims con-
demned Estrada and the
soldiers for allegedly eat-
ing “lechon baboy” inside
the mosque, an act of des-
ecrating a holy place.
However, Lim belies
such insinuation, saying
that Estrada and govern-
ment troops ate in an open
field in Camp Abubakar.
It was the end of rebel
groups in Mindanao. But,
alas, Estrada was removed
from power and Arroyo
took the command.
Arroyo, like Aquino,
turned the tide. She talked
with Muslim leaders and
ordered government troops
to withdraw from the be-
sieged rebel camps.
Once more, the rebel
groups reigned in Mindan-
ao, and it seemed nothing
happened despite the sweat
and blood that watered
the land of wars, Southern
Mindanao.
After Arroyo, President
Noynoy Aquino lives with
the dream of his mother.
Now, PNoy is stretch-
Tupay Loong for divulg-
ing the oil drilling activity
of Exxonmobil in the Sulu
Sea.
Otherwise, the people
in this archipelago will not
benefit even a “liter of oil.”
Shari’ah Training,
a continuing program
of the NCMF
Secretary and Chief Ex-
ecutive Officer Bai Omera
Dianalan-Lucman who
said she continue to ad-
minister the mandate of the
National Commission on
Muslim Filipinos (NCMF)
with dedication said they
will hold Shari’ah (Muslim
law) training seminar as a
continuing program of the
NCMF.
For those who have not
yet known, the NCMF is
now the agency that used
to be known as the Office
on Muslim Affairs (OMA),
created by law to look af-
ter the welfare of Muslim
Filipinos.
On January 22, the
NCMF in the Zamboanga
Peninsula or Region IX
headed by Acting Regional
Director Dennison M. Abi-
din held their opening pro-
gram for their participants
in the 12th Shari’ah Train-
ing Seminar in Zamboanga
City.
My good friend and
contemporary Datu Mufti
G. Jaafar, who is one of
the NCMF commissioners
representing the Province
of Tawi-Tawi, was the
guest of honor and keynote
speaker.
Commissioner Jaafar,
who is a younger brother
of Rep. Nur G. Jaafar of
5               
ing a table for peace ne-
gotiation in Mindanao: A
never-ending negotiation
since time immemorial.
I agree with General
Lim that the president
can make and unmake
peace.
The war was won
twice in Mindanao, but
twice the war was un-
folded by former women
presidents, and now
courtesy of the son of
former president.
We feel the grief of
Gen. Lim for he, too,
shed blood twice in
Mindanao during the
wars. And the marks of
bullets can never be re-
moved from the color of
his skin.
We are not against
peace negotiations for
peace shall be achieved
not by the barrels of
guns. But peace talks
were proven unssuc-
cesful since the time of
Dr. Jose Rizal when he
fought with tongue and
letters of his writings.
Peace talks, as proved
by history, are failed ex-
periments. However, it
is our hope that with the
sincerity of P-Noy, war
can be contained by the
tongue of his mouth.
***
For comments or
inquiries, contact the
author at hernz0210@
yahoo.com.
the Lone District of
Tawi-Tawi, eloquently
delivered his speech be-
fore NCMF Region IX
officials and employees
and the participants of
the Shari’ah Training
Seminar. He discussed
“The Significance of
Shari’ah in relation to
Code of Muslim Per-
sonal Laws of the Phil-
ippines.”
***
POSTSCRIPT:
Dyaryo Magdalo
through this column
thanks Aleem Said Ah-
mad Basher, who is the
chairman of the Imam
Council of the Philip-
pines, for describing
the weekly as “fearless
but fair Dyaryo Mag-
dalo”; Nash Pangada-
pun, who is the secretary
general of Maradeka,
a civil society group in
the Bangsamoro; Engr.
Yusuff Macalangcom,
who is the president of
the Sta. Lucia Muslim
Traders Association;
Atty. Rex Panumpang,
who is the chairman of
the Council of Elders of
the Greenhills Muslim
Traders Association; and
Archie Villamater.
Happy birthday to
our beloved daughter
Shaneley. She celebrat-
ed her natal day on Janu-
ary 23 at Cuyab Resort
in Pansol, Calamba City,
Laguna. Shukran to all
of you!
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author at jannaral69@
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 6               Vol. II No. 32 Jan. 17-23, 2011

The eternal
By OMAY E. RENTA

Virgo ghost
of Rejoice
I
S it possible for Virgo ghost to give justice to For his de-
anyone born under its sun sign? Or, can Virgo nial, Dominguez
ghost stripe a hint in solving a puzzle by unfold- remains innocent
ing the missing link like in the mysterious death until proven Rejoice photo in happier times.
of guilty of the reason, she junked him.
Rejoice Rivera, born on August 29, 1984 under the crimes. As theorized, the ego of Dominguez has been deeply
planet Venus and sun sign Virgo, a beautiful virgin What could scratched, and he lost face to his friends and com-
harvest goddess? possibly indict rades. For the man of pride and money, his patience
Accordingly, the Virgo ghost is undying in giving Dominguez to ran low.
hint to locate the missing links or things to satisfy and the killing of He tried to court Rejoice to win her once more. But
justify the end. Further, according to Sumerian my- Rejoice? the answer angered him more.
thology, the beauty of Virgo is a gift of Venus or Venus First, Domin- For the nth time, he begged for the lost love until
herself, the greek goddess of beauty, passion, love and guez is a former the night of December 28, 2010, the night Rejoice was
sexuality. Venus means “she who shows the way to the lover of Rejoice. last seen alive.
stars,” or, to the light, or, to enlightenment. Second, he is As shared by Nieves Santos, the mother of Rejoice,
If the ways of Virgo ghost and of Venus are to be the last person on that fateful night, Rejoice told her that somebody
given weight, then, the myth speaks all truth in real seen with Rejoice sent a text message wanting to see her. She mentioned
life, for the mysterious death of Rejoice is unfolding, hours before the name Raymond, the given name of Dominguez.
little by little. the discovery She added that Raymond will fetch her at her house
The Virgo ghost might have moved in mysterious of her remains in Malolos, Bulacan.
ways until after the discovery of the charred bodies of at 3:35am on That night, Rejoice left home in peace, and the fol-
Venson Evangelista, Emerson Lozano and the latter’s the shoulder of lowing day her lifeless body with two bullets in the
driver Ernani Sensil. North Luzon head was found on the shoulder of NLEX-Tabang
Lozano and Sensil disappeared on January 12 in Expressway Exit in Bocaue, Bulacan.
Quezon City after meeting the prospect buyer of his (NLEX)-Tabang Probably guided by the goddess, Nieves recalled Re-
van, and their corpses were found in Tarlac. Exit in Bocaue, joice’s stories on Raymond’s habit of pumping bullets
Evangelista disappeared in Quezon City on January Bulacan. at the speed limit signage near Tabang Exit.
13 during a road test of his Land Cruiser. His remains However, Cen- The PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection
were found in Nueva Ecija. tral Luzon Re- Group operatives visited the said place and they dis-
Their untimely deaths are now weighed as waves gional Director covered two empty shells of a 9mm.
of heinous crimes that commenced from the death of Allan Purisima Their examination of the empty shells uncovered
Rejoice. said these are close similarities with the bullets extracted from the
Their untimely deaths sparked a big bang to an not strong evi- corpse of Lozano, Emil and Evangelista.
unimaginable proportion, to the extent of unearthing dence that could The authorities also visited the condominium unit
the secrets of the December 29, 2010 crime which were pin Dominguez of Rejoice in Bago-Bantay, Quezon City. They recov-
buried with Rejoice in her grave. in the murder of ered receipts and a t-shirt believed owned by Domin-
Yes, the way to the stars, to the light, to enlighten- Rejoice Rivera. guez.
ment is at hand as witness Alfred Mendiola went to Purisima The name of Dominguez tops the list of the suspects
the forefront, linking Raymond Dominguez, leader of might be right, linked to the killings that haunted Central Luzon. He
Dominguez Carnap Gang, to the nonsense killings of but the simple began to fear for his life. For safety, he turned himself
innocent humans. fact that Domin- in to Bulacan police.
Mendiola admitted that he has knowledge of the plan guez is a former Dominguez faces the charges for the Evangelista
against Rejoice, of how she will be fetched, how and boyfriend of carjack-slay and is detained at the Philippine Nation-
where she will be killed, and where her body will be Rejoice is to be al Police Custody Center in Camp Crame.
dumped. meditated. The The case of Rejoice is not yet closed, but the guid-
Dominguez denied having a hand in the killings as he same also with ance of Virgo ghost and of Venus to the investigation
expressed alarm after his name was linked to Rejoice’s the fact that for of the tragedy will eventually clear the way for the
murder. still unknown delivery of justice for her to finally rest in peace.
 Jan. 17-23, 2011
Pasay cop’s
bravery led
to Indian
mafia
Ngie, in a quest for justice
for the death of his son
Andy, inquired from the
manager of BPI Family
Bank if any withdrawal
was made on his son’s
ATM account.
The bank informed
Ching that withdraw-
als were made in the
amounts of P5,000 and
P2,000, at 5:00 a.m. and
6:00 a.m. of December
21, 2010 at an ATM booth
on McArthur Highway in
Urdaneta, Pangasinan.
Thus, this led to the
bank to provide a vid-
eo recording of a man
withdrawing P5,000 and
P2,000 from the account
of Ngie.
Later, the image of
the man who withdrew
the money was identi-
fied as Charles Philip
Pineda Lou, who was
also known as “Bobon,”
The 6 QCPD cops who were implicated in the botched kidnapping of an
Indian national.
an NBI asset.
Queried, Bobon dis-
closed that it was his
cousin PO1 Mark Ed-
ward Zapata who asked
him to withdraw.
Bobon added that he
was also earlier asked
by Zapata to look for a
buyer of white Mazda
Friendee van and a Hon-
da CRV SUV.
Until here, along with
the positive identification
of Faycho by Apolinario,
the theory of SIDM was
strengthened that it was
QCPD, DAID-SOTG op-
eratives who committed
the crimes of kidnapping.
Pasay police request-
ed the NCRPO to provide
personal data sheets of
all QCPD-DAID-SOTG
operatives, leading
QCDD Director for Ad-
ministration Senior Supt.
Benjamin Magalong to
provide colored pictures
of policemen assigned at
its DAID-SOTF.
Pasay SIDM looked
for witnesses and they
found a certain Celso Di-
manlig, who positively
identified the picture of
Police Officer 2 Edmund
Faculdar as the one who
shot Apolinario and Ku-
mar.
Dimanlig further said
that he heard Faculdar
saying: “Go na tayo. Go
na tayo!”
Pasay SIDM cops
also found another wit-
ness Jackielyn Valenzu-
ela Casabuena, a minor
of 14 years old.
Jackielyn positively
identified Faycho from
the pictures as the one
who also shot Kumar and
Apolinario.
Then calls to Pasay
Police led to the discov-
ery of the burnt bodies
of Andy Ngie and Ret, in
Pangasinan and Bataan,
respectively.
At this point, the
SIDM detectives be-
lieved that the attempt to
kidnap or kill Kumar had
the “blessing” of rank-
ing government officials,
pointing at law enforce-
ment agencies. They
reasoned out that the
identified PNP members
and Bobon, an NBI asset,
will not stage the evil act
without the “backing.”
The SIDM detectives
also noted the discrepan-
cies of the operation, par-
ticularly the authentic-
ity of the Pre-Operations
Vol. II No. 32 7               
from page 2
Report and Coordination printed name of Mag-
Form signed on behalf of along, the Task Group
Magalong. An examina- Commander of QCPD’s
tion of these documents DAID-SOTG, approving
showed that these were the coordination.
signed by somebody else Until this time, prob-
as “for Magalong.” ers had already estab-
When queried, Fay- lished a very strong case
cho denied and insisted that Faycho and his men
he did not join the opera- are probably guilty for
tion. This denial was not the crimes of frustrated
believed by the SIDM murder and direct assault
cops because aside from committed against Apoli-
the positive identifica- nario, attempted kidnap-
tion by two witnesses, ping with homicide com-
Apolinario and the mi- mitted against Kumar,
nor girl, the implement- carnapping (with force
ing rules and regulation and intimidation) for the
of the PNP-Operating taking of the Mazda van
Procedure dictates that of Ngie, and two counts
a commissioned officer of murder for the killing The would-be kidnapping victim, Manjinder “James” Kumar.
must be present in field of Andy Ngie and Ret.
operations, like the one Kumar also disclosed Projects funded by Laden, the known leader
they tried to coordinate Motive behind the crimes that the group of Singh foreign governments and of an international ter-
with the Pasay Police Of- attempted to kill him on groups are already a nor- rorist group al Qaeda,
fice and its community Further investigation March 13, 2006 in an mal practice in the Philip- to finance the training
precinct No. 11 on De- of SIDM probers led to incident that occurred pines. Some funds are di- and operations of terror-
cember 20. the motive behind the at 11:30 p.m. in Makati rected to the national and ist groups in the country,
crimes. City. This incident re- local government units like the Abu Sayyaf in
Kumar divulged to mained unsolved. while others are through Southern Mindanao.
them that while he was As such, the Pasay foundations and private Kumar believed that
running away from the Police SIDM and Cuaton religious organizations. money is the root of the
crime scene, he saw his recommended the filing When cleared by the crime against him. He
fellow Indian he iden- of cases against the fol- Philippine banks, these disclosed that an extor-
tified as Gurdarshan lowing: Chief Insp. Fay- donations are withdrawn tion racket of the group
Singh, who is also known cho, PO2 Faculdar, PO1 from the banks to finance of Gurdarshan Singh
as Geedee Singh. Zapata, Lou, Gurdanshan the project or to divert alias Geedee Singh may
Kumar said that Singh, Saudagar Singh, the funds for other proj- have been too shallow
Geedee Singh was sit- Deepak Kumar, and Brar ects to serve a specific when compared to dona-
ting inside the sedan car for attempted kidnapping purpose or cause. tions into his organiza-
where he saw Faycho sit- with frustrated homicide, The leaders of the tion.
ting. direct assault and frus- group where the funds Khalsadiwan Indian
He said he also found trated murder, carnap- flow into will receive Sect is no different from
other persons inside the ping, and two counts of their corresponding per- other local and foreign
vehicle and he identified murder. centage of the total dona- religious groups in the
them as Saudagar Singh, tion while the remaining country that exist on for-
Deepak Kumar and Multi-billion-peso donations funds shall be allocated eign donations.
Baldev Singh Brar. for specific purposes or However, the heinous
With this, Kumar is The smokescreened causes, legal or illegal. crimes committed by
fully convinced that the police operation was In some donation trans- the police officers in ca-
The SIDM detectives incident was perpetrated perceived to have been actions, the percentages hoots with Indian nation-
also did not believe Fay- by the group of Singh in financed by an Indian are a pre-arranged deal. als sent a wrong signal:
cho’s claim that he dis- tandem with the cops led syndicate with the pur- This practice is re- Something is cooking
patched 11 operatives in by Faycho. pose of ending the reign ported to have been ad- behind Khalsa Diwan In-
11 vehicles because this He said that the group of Kumar as president opted by Osama Bin dian Sect.
would mean that one po- of Geedee Singh has been of Khalsa Diwan Indian
liceman was riding on one notorious for robbery by Sect and for the appoint- AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION (EXTRAJU-
vehicle at one time. This, extortion, death threats, ment of a new leader al- DICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF SUSANA
they said, is not normal and murders committed lied with the syndicate ANDRES COLLADO) – Being the sole heir of Susana
in any surveillance or against Indian nationals for it to be able to dictate Andres Collado of No. 2 Mt. Everest St., Filinvest I,
test-buy operation. What in the Philippines. the flow of funds into the Batasan Hills, Quezon City, CASIMIRA ANDRES COL-
is normal is, the probers Kumar disclosed that religious group. LADO PASCUAL adjudicated unto herself the personal
said, two or three police- Singh was kicked out by The donations are property of the Estate of SUSANA ANDRES COLLADO
men per vehicle for the the board of directors from said to be amounting by consisting in all the amount deposited in the Foreign
purpose of extending aid the vice presidency of the hundreds of millions Currency Deposit at Metrobank under Bank Account
to each other in any un- Khalsadiwan Indian Sect of dollars from the Unit- No. 032-2-03200261-1. Notarized under the notarial
toward incident. after he was found guilty ed States. registry of Notary Public Dervin V. Castro as the Notary
In an apparent attempt of robbery by extortion. These donations are Public for Manila, specifically Document No. 294, Page
to legalize his team’s op- Kumar is convinced done bank to bank. These No. 155, Book No. 2, whose acknowledgment is regis-
eration, Faycho’s sig- that Singh wanted him donations are free of tax tered under the same notarial book as Document No.
nature was seen on the dead for him to control and not covered by the 295, Page No. 155, Book No. 2, all dated December 31,
Coordination Form dated the flow of the huge fund Money Laundering Law 2010. (This is the publication for this issue of January
December 20, 2010. The of the organization and because these are given 17, 2011, Monday, the third day of issue of this weekly
same signature is seen as to hold the Indian com- as foreign aids for proj- newsmagazine.)
the one signing over the munity by the neck. ects in the country.
 8               Vol. II No. 32
Team Azkals with
their new German
coach, Hans Michael
Weiss.
‘AZKALS’ ARE NOW
ATTACK DOGS!
By RONALDO B.
HERICO
Dan Palami, the man behind
Philippine Azkals.
P
HILIPPINE Pres-
ident Benigno
Aquino III signi-
fied his intention
to watch the Phil-
ippine football team called
“Azkals” play against
Mongolia in the first leg
of the Asian Football Con-
federation Challenge Cup
to be held at the Panaad
Stadium in Bacolod City
on February 9.
Proponents across the
nation are gearing up for
this much-anticipated
matchup. Social network
websites like Facebook,
Twitter and other com-
munity forums are al-
ready overloaded with an-
nouncements to make the
15,000-seater stadium full.
As outlined by a fan
site referred to as “Phil-
ippine National Football
Team,” it encourages all
supporters to don white
The Azkals went on to play Indonesia
on a home-and-away format. Howev-
er, the two legs of the semifinal tie
were played in Indonesia because
the AFF thumbed down the qual-
ity of Philippine football facili-
ties.
The match was marred by
cards being thrown at the Phil-
ippine side. Midfielder Chris
Greatwich received a red card
after colliding with Indone-
sian goalkeeper Markus and
three other players getting
yellow cards for fouls.
Uruguay-born Christian
Gonzales scored the goals in
the two games that made the
more than 80, 000 Indonesian
supporters, including President
SusiloBambangYudhoyono,
his wife, and mili-
tary generals
shirt on game days while scream in jubilation.
team manager Dan Palami The Azkals may have
“is requesting everyone to lost the match with the In-
come up with a demo vid- dons but they earned the
eo of Bamboo’s “Noypi” admiration of the football
chant for the Azkals home world.
game.”
Thanks partly to their New coach, new system
amazing semifinal stint
in the recently-concluded The new coach, Ger-
2010 Asian Football Fed- man coach Hanz Michael
eration (AFF) Suzuki Cup. Weiss, has been said to
It had been a marvelous be a welcome boost as
experience for the Philip- he picked off from where
pine Azkals. former coach McMenemy
The national team con- left off.
quered powerhouse and Weiss, a former Euro-
defending champion Viet- pean player and a certified
nam in a spectacular 2-0 coach, wanted to trans-
upset in Laos. The Azkals’ form the Azkals into an
perseverance was seen in attacking team and veer
front of 40, 000 Vietnam- away from the defensive
ese spectators at the My mode they played during
Dinh National Stadium the Suzuki Cup.
last month. The first time Weiss knows his repu-
the Philippines conquered tation is at stake when he
Vietnam in more than 20 took over the coaching
years. chores from England’s
Simon McMenemy, who
was credited for catapult-
ing the Azkals into fame
when they scored a 2-0
win over defending cham-
pion Vietnam in Laos.
McNemeny’s contract
with the team expired last
December.
Many believe that the
Azkals will cruise hand-
ily past Mongolia in the
AFC Challenge Cup next
month, but Weiss said the
match will not be as easy
as everyone might expect
from his team. He is not
taking any chances by as-
sembling a team consist-
ing of the best local along
with Fil-foreign players.
“I’m hoping for a
convincing victory but
there is an opponent on
the other side of the pitch
and they are also seri-
ously preparing for the
match,” Weiss said of
the Mongolians who,
reports said, are train-
ing in Guangzhou, Chi-
na in preparation for this
match.
Weiss is injecting a
more attacking style of
play and also focusing his
training on conditioning,
an approach welcomed by
some of his players.
Weiss said it will take
time for the Azkals to
change their system from
defensive to attacking.
“I think he brings a
different dimension to our
team, which focuses more
on conditioning and more
attacking football,” skip-
per Ali Borromeo said.
“On paper, we are
pretty strong. Everyone is
in high spirits. ”
“We are adapting to
his methods,” midfielder
Simon Greatwich said.
“He carries his (training)
sessions well. ”
The Mongolians
would appear to be patsies
with their 182 ranking,
but Weiss knows only too
well that underestimating
the enemy could cost his
team.
Unconditional support
It all started with a
vision of helping the na-
tional team and basically
to make the ultimate sac-
rifice. He’s made a tre-
mendous investment on
the team. But more than
financial, he invested time
and effort because he truly
wanted to see the country
succeed in the sport.
“I had to put my mon-
ey where my mouth is,”
says the Philippine Az-
kals team manager Dan
Palami.
Palami was the force
behind the Leyte Foot-
ball Association and has
helped with the develop-
ment of the sport in the
region.
When he decided to
take the initiative to man-
age and financially sup-
port the national team, he
did it his way without in-
terference. “Maybe they
didn’t interfere because
they didn’t want me to ask
for help. What I did was
ask them what they did, so
I’d know what not to do”.
“This is my first time
to handle the RP team,”
he admits. But his experi-
ence in the corporate en-
vironment has helped his
approach towards the Az-
kals and how they should
be treated on and off the
pitch.
“Before, the team
would be put together and
prepare a month before a
tournament”, but knowing
that hard work and prepa-
ration is the secret to any
team’s success, Palami
changed the culture radi-
cally.
“We brought in a
coach from the UK who
could put the proper train-
ing the team needed. We
do have a lot of Class A
coaches around here but
since we don’t really have
a competitive league, we
figured we needed some-
one who had experience.
Des Bulfin did a tremen-
dous job and he under-
stood what we needed to
do to be competitive in
South East Asia.” Unfor-
tunately though, Bulfin
had to leave so Palami
hired the young and dy-
namic Simon McMenemy
to take over.
Bulfin actually laid out
the picture on what they
needed to improve on to
form a competitive team.
He put emphasis on de-
fense and capitalized on
counter attacks. “When
McMenemy came, he
complimented that and in-
fused possession football
in the midfield to maxi-
mize the skilled European
players we have,” Palami
stated.
The road to the
2014 World Cup
The future is bright for
Philippine football. Still
in the infant stage though,
the Azkals has managed
to take the sport to greater
heights.
The Azkals opens their
campaign next month
when they clash with
Mongolia in a home-
and-away tie in the Asian
Football Confederation
Challenge Cup qualifier.
The home game will
be held at the Panaad
Stadium in Bacolod on
Feb. 9. But the Philip-
pine Football Federation
Jan. 17-23, 2011
is also pushing to have the
away game at Panaad be-
cause of the cold weather
in Mongolia.
In June, the Philippine
Azkals will see action in
the qualifying tournament
for the 2014 World Cup in
Brazil which the country
is joining for the first time
in more than a decade.
The team will then
play in the Southeast
Asian Games in Indonesia
in November. The SEA
Games is an Under-23
event and only six play-
ers from the senior team,
including goalkeeper Neil
Etheridge and Jason de
Jong, will be eligible for
the tournament.
In between, the team
hopes to invite teams from
other countries for friend-
ly games in order to hone
their skills further which
could help them improve
their FIFA ranking.
Given little chance
because of their poor
results in the past, the
Azkals emerged as the
surprise package of the
Asean Football Federa-
tion Suzuki Cup, reach-
ing the semifinals where
they eventually bowed to
Indonesia.
A stunning 2-0 victory
over Vietnam and draws
with fancied squads Sin-
gapore and Myanmar
propelled the Filipinos to
the semifinals for the first
time in the tournament’s
14-year history.
“It was a culmination
of a very nice run for us.
We never expected to
reach the semifinals and
credit goes to the players
for playing their hearts
out,” said Palami.
The campaign was a
reflection of the Filipino
spirit of never backing
down even at great odds.