It happened on a Wednesday (March 5, 2009), to a 20-year old teacher near their house in Bago Gallera de Oro Subdivision in Davao City. It was at about 6:30 in the afternoon of that mysterious day when she was snatched by armed men, suspected by her family as military agents.
She was found dead by a farmer with stab wounds and torture marks near an irrigation ditch. The autopsy report indicated a laceration in her genitals and believed to have been harshly raped.
Rebelyn Pitao was the daughter of a ranking communist guerilla, ‘Commander Parago’. He is a communist rebel who never weakens the cause of the revolution against the oppressive government despite the brutal fate of his youngest slain daughter.
How ironic the day (Wednesday) when she was brutally tortured by unidentified agents and let the innocent lady suffered the agony that was not really set for her fate.
In fact, it should have been a glorious, resurrection day to a pious, Virgin Mary devotee. Haha. I was bothered by the day.
I couldn’t seek any legal reason why this kind of incident is never given an all-out investigation by our law enforcement agents nor have the full support from our government to conduct series of investigation to solve the case. The outraged voice of the slain victim is screaming for her human rights and justice that those responsible should be punished. “C’mon the gaunt chicks are getting weaker.” Why is it – that the justice in the Philippines, like those hopes and dreams of the victims are so shattered, thus will be impossible? L
Is it because the unidentified suspects are those who are granted the power to arrest the insurgents and have the responsibility on apprehending the criminals? Or the reason that Rebelyn’s father is a communist rebel leader who is fighting for the corrupt and unscrupulous leaders of our country?
As I was reading the pages on Rebelyn’s incident, the realization has been beleaguering my mind with the thoughts that the Philippine laws are now susceptible to impunity, exclusively for our government officials and those who have armaments in our communities. I don’t know exactly why these people who can buy lives and accept bribes, live with their dirtiest conscience they have. Sigh. After all, those powerful perpetrators could no longer be identified as human-slayers, nor the wildest beasts protected and defended by military fangs. But demonic creatures, hiding in their camouflage indeed. Sigh again.
What a bittersweet revenge! Why should be the daughter who lived a serene life, devoting her invaluable time and efforts to teach the children upland, has to compensate for her dad’s ideologies against an oblivious crooked government?
Rebelyn is just one of the unfortunate victims of the many unresolved cases in the Philippines. When will these atrocities be resolved? When to take steps addressing the violence of those civilians who happened to be relatives of the targets?
“What’s the mystery again?”
It was Wednesday. Perhaps it’s a glorious mystery!
A camouflage GLORY – indeed glory to the culprits.
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