Kaban ni D_BystandeR; NGANONG GIDAUGDAOG MAN ANG MGA "LUMAD"?

Nothing can be considered and interpreted as an outrageous way of committing a supremely despicable disservice to our country than for somebody like BS Aquino, whose mandate as our elected president ends next year in June 2016, to issue a statement that seems to rub salt on the wounded feelings of people who view the killings of the 'lumad' (indigenous people or IP) in Mindanao a spectacular fresh reproduction of the "harshness" of the martial law regime of FM, who tried to perpetuate himself in power with his "iron fist" rule of our country for 21 years by refusing to institute discipline to the government armed forces who perpetrated the unabated human rights abuses done to people especially those living in the countrysides. It is clearly unjust and unfair for Aquino to right away dismiss all the the 'lumad' killings in Mindanao as only done to people who committed crimes. A more just and fair reaction for Aquino to do would have been to order an honest and truthful investigation in all these killings as they are also Filipinos whose deaths  deserved to be given justice although they belong to the poor minorities or 'lumads' living in the countrysides of Mindanao. The root cause of all this injustice to the "lumads" is the shameless advancement of the unscrupulous businessmen engaged in mining industries to encroach on the remaining ancestral land of the natives to extract precious golds and other minerals to further enrich their insatiable greed for more wealth. They want the natives to just lay down in submission and fold their arms to their wayward greed and they enlist the help of the military to punish those leaders of the natives who showed signs to assert their rights to preserve their land for their own livelihood in a peaceful way and to have them "murdered" right in their very own land and in front of their followers to show terror and fear to those who might  make the mistake of following their path. President Ramon Magsaysay whose life was cut short because of a plane accident in 1957 and whose death was mourned by  millions of Filipinos who wept unashamedly lining the streets in Manila to view the passing of the car carrying his casket to his final grave as a way to express sentimental parting shots to a fallen leader and who was called "the man of the masses" because he treats people equally whether they are rich or poor, once said, "Those who have less in life should have more in law."

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with a news item in PDI written by Karlo Mikhail Mongaya, entitled, "Whitewashing the killing of 'lumad'." It came out on 09/29/15.