Bloody Monday

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Please allow me to say a few words about it.

We live in a future time. Historians, scientists, and sociologists have said time and time again that we have reached the height of our civilization: universal harmony and understanding, a millennia worth of information at the touch of a button, technology that make life a lot easier. It is easy to think that we have left innumerable mistakes of times past to arrive at where we now.

So it’s very difficult to understand why there are still some people in the world with the brains of cold-blooded mass murderers, tyrants and warlords of history. It is easy, however, to understand the shock that the whole world felt about what happened on that fateful Monday in a remote location in Maguindanao. Nobody expected that any human nowadays would still be capable of shameless, soulless, heartless slaughter of innocents.

Journalists butchered. Women raped, tortured and killed. Humanity desecrated. One can only think that this only happened during the Dark Ages when kings fought for power or when despots struggled to keep their control by purging their enemies, making examples of their victims to the public to never cross them again.

We may be many miles away from where it all happened, but we cannot deny the fact that we will forever be affected by it. From now on, we must make sure that this never happens in the future.

We should never allow such monsters to govern us again. We have the capability to make this so; next year we will display this power.

We will never forget.