It never fails to surprise the ever-urbane modern Filipino, (in whom outrage can be sparked by a little Chip Tsao) how very many persons have actually been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf Groups in the Southern Philippines in the 21st Century alone. The list of names I have compiled below is incomplete but ought to stand out as bloody violations of Philippine sovereignty, if not Philippine self-respect. That these serial acts of inhumane illegal detention, kidnap for ransom, torture and murder have continued unabated, and are even rationalized, justified or defended by some seriously deluded folks, suggests a major mental dysfunction in the Philippine body politic.
GUILLERMO SOBERO
The Atlantic Magazine’s article, Jihadists in Paradise tells the story of Guillermo Sobero, who was the first person I had ever heard about to have been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf, way back in 2001, several months before the September 11 attacks in New York. This is a very long article that spans the Dos Palmas raid and the year of agony for the whole nation that ensued, including the story Martin and Gracia Burnham, and the dozens of Filipinos that suffered with them (though not GMA’s billionaire pal, Reghis Romero).
The Atlantic Magazine’s article, Jihadists in Paradise tells the story of Guillermo Sobero, who was the first person I had ever heard about to have been beheaded by the Abu Sayyaf, way back in 2001, several months before the September 11 attacks in New York. This is a very long article that spans the Dos Palmas raid and the year of agony for the whole nation that ensued, including the story Martin and Gracia Burnham, and the dozens of Filipinos that suffered with them (though not GMA’s billionaire pal, Reghis Romero).
ELMER NATALARAY and eight other Juan de la Cruzes
Among these lesser known persons was 24-year old Filipino Elmer Natalaray who was beheaded by Commander Robot (UK Telegraph) along with eight other hostaged Christian males after they did Sobero in a ritualistic murder, memorably chronicled at the Belmont Club as a “ribbon cutting ceremony.”
VISAYAN SUMMER STUDENTS
One of the most senseless of the ASG Al Bader Parad’s decapitation sprees–and the most heartbreaking–is the one involving six hapless and totally innocent summer students from the Visayas working on a Sulu road construction gang, and a dried fish vendor who just happened to be taken with them, whose name is however unknown, though the six students were:
VISAYAN SUMMER STUDENTS
One of the most senseless of the ASG Al Bader Parad’s decapitation sprees–and the most heartbreaking–is the one involving six hapless and totally innocent summer students from the Visayas working on a Sulu road construction gang, and a dried fish vendor who just happened to be taken with them, whose name is however unknown, though the six students were:
ROGER FRANCISCO,
WILNER SANTOS
WILNER SANTOS
JELOWIE TEODORO
NONOY AMPOY
TOTO MILAS
DENNIS DE LOS REYES.
UNNAMED DRIED FISH VENDOR
PHILIPPINE MARINES LOOKING FOR FR. BOSSI
ABSCBN News first posted the list of the TEN PHILIPPINE MARINES who were ambushed, killed and beheaded whilst searching for the later ransomed and vamoosed Fr. Giancarlo Bossi…
EMMANUEL BEUP
REUBEN DORONIO JR.
FREDDIE PALMA JR.
ELIZAR SEMENIANO
ARJORIN ALEZAR
JHONARD ALLANZA
WILFREDO LAMBAN
EMILIO LACHICA JR.
RUSSELL PANAGA
RUSSELL PANAGA
REY CALAUENG
GERARDO LICUP
CAYETANO SIMBANGON
BERNARD ABES
NOEL BAUTISTA
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How to simplify the IRC hostage crisis.
Government simply must back off now. Let the Europeans negotiate directly after all, whether we like it or not, that’s how it’s going to end. The Italians will end up paying as sure as the sun rises. RP government’s role as ever, will be minimal, they are merely service providers. They, the government and their cotterie of henchmen and carpetbaggers, need not worry. Their emissaries will be paid both ways, one by the Italians and the other by the Abu Sayyaffs.
Gordon must back off (he may tearjerk all he wants but tearjerking never worked with the Abu Sayyaffs, he should know that by now); all the other Filipino dodos there must also back off. Even Nelson Allaga can go back to his favourite cocktail lounge and drink himself to sleep all he wants (his personal services are not exactly required — his junior officers can accompany the convoy, that’s all they are good for anyway).
All that’s required of this government from now on is to act as and to limit their role to that of plain and simple contractual service providers or minor hostage consultants. And while we are at it, the Italians must specify that the terms of the service provider contract with RP government is limited to just simple, very basic logistics.
Ultimately, for this hostage crisis to come to an end, government men, eg., local, regional and national along with their so-called governement to Abu Sayyaff conduits, etc., must be taken out of the entire negotiation equation proper — they are useless, they are clueless, they are morons!
Don’t you get the feeling that AdeBrux confirms my original proposal — to get these Europeans out of the country be they ICRC or missionaries. When in trouble, their appeaser-governments get in the way and their appeal-to-appease do Pinas no good.
And believe me, Dean, that’s exactly the European label for the Philippine government: Service Providers
Was lunching with a couple of friends today at the EU when the IRC hostage crisis cropped up in the conversation. We all agreed that Italy needs to sign up the Philippine government itself as Service Providers if they want to achieve results or see the Italian hostage alive again. It was of course said in jest but you get the gist… You can’t begin to imagine how the Philippine govt is held in very very low esteem here, almost in aject contempt.
It’s common knowledge here that you don’t get anywhere doing business in the Philippines unless you have someone in RP govt itself acting as your agent doing your bidding, your pointman or more commonly known in today’s business world as the Service Provider.
AdeBrux, we call it here the “patong” man.
Hahahha! Sounds like some kind of Dagdag-Dagdag method to me.
UPNgrad
You gotta be kidding — we don’t give a hoot about what happens to your government. Your government could wallow in shit till kingdom come, nobody here cares.
We appease nobody and no one. That’s your own outlook, your government, your shit, your problem.
I personally wouldn’t care if the entire China Sea swallowed the entire Philippine Government. Matter of fact, I’d say, good riddance!
But don’t get me wrong UPNgrad — I agree with you.
I don’t understand why these Europeans or Americans for that mater, insist on going to the Philippines to help Filipinos. I mean, what on earth for?
The Philippines is not exactly the nicest place in the world. We all know that the Philippines is one of the few places in the world where a Westerner runs the highest risk of getting robbed, getting kidnapped, getting beheaded, etc. One must be a real dodo, a bonehead, a masochist to accept to be treated that way.
:razz: temper… temper.. temper… :razz: Otherwise, the Nick-thought-police may send you a warning.
What temper? and what Nickthoughtpolice? You mean FV has got an Abu Sayyaff squad here too? Oh gee… now, you got me scared, really scared.
Anyway, before I flee, I said I agreed with you! Europeans, Americans out of the Philippines… Leave the Philippines to Filipinos. They need no help, they are big boys and big girls. They are perfectly capable of looking after themselves. They certainly don’t need European help and can’t see why they need American help either.
After all, Filipinos claim the Philippines is first world or second world nation now so why should they need help?
In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed wealth is something to be ashamed of. – Confucius
In a wealthy country is poor governance something to be proud of? In a poor country is good governance something to be ashamed of? – Confusion
Enough Abu Sayaf already!!! I’m tired of hearing and reading this!
ABERR, How in the world a rag-tag team able to squirm out of the clutches of our “professional” PMA commanders?
The two white folks is easy to spot among brown-skin-punked-nose Filipinos. Are we blind? Are they blind? Or they just put a fast one on us?
HESUS MARIA JOSEF TABANGA? I’M ASKING THIS QUESTIONS BECAUSE PEKENG-PERYODISTAS ARE STUPID TO ASK THESE QUESTIONS ….
…. If this happened in America, the one beheaded would be the West Point commanders …
SINCE THIS IS THE PHILIPPINES, THE ONES BEHEADED ARE THE FOOT SOLDIERS OF THE PMA COMMANDERS …
Alaaaaaaa! NOW WITH MY ENLIGHTNING TAKE ON THIS MATTER DO YOU THINK NICK WILL RUN FOR POLITICAL OFFICE?
HE’D BE A FOOL IF HE’D RUN … TO SERVE THE COUNTRY … OF FOOLS!!!!
The Muslim faith is like other faith. Christian, Jew, or Hindu. It had produced a radical ideology which is the Wahabi sect ideology.
Christian faith had also a share of these idiotic ideology. Remember
when the Christian Minister Jones, encourage his followers to die
and go to heaven? They all drank Cyanide laced drink in French Guyana, killing 700 people. Or the Christian Radicals in Waco, Texas, U.S.A.?
Children and adults were burned in the standoff in the Religious
Compound.
There will always be Religious Idiots who will misinterpret those
Holy Scriptures in any religion for their Personal Ambitions.
Philipfinos are like that, Tas. They don’t believe in themselves. They believe their accomplishments are devinely inspired that’s why we are in the muck we’re in.
It’s lenten season. Let’s protest before the church to demand an answer to our prayers. I want to know whatever happened to the money they have given to the church.
ALL I NEED IS TO INCREASE 10-FOLD OUR IQ!
If God able to save Israel from demagoguery of its neighbors why God neglected us?
BECAUSE GOD IS A BIGOTED RACIST. GOD PREFERS WHITE PEOPLE OVER BROWN-SKIN-PUNKED-NOSE …
Check your stats, Tas. Black and Brown people are more likely to live in poverty than WHITE PEOPLE WORLDWIDE!!!!!!!!
PEOPLE LIE. NUMBERS DON’T!
Well hellow there, Anna. Glad to see you, dear!
Hi Dean!
Like your hat!!!
Btw, G20 has just come up with a resolution that will virtually police the world banking and financial industry. The resolution is now effective.
Minutes after the final G20 press conference, the OECD released a blacklist containing the names of nations engaged in corrupt banking practices and tax malpractices, and surprise, surprise, the Philippines is on top of the list!
Last night, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development issued a “blacklist” of four offending countries: Costa Rica, Malaysia, the Philippines and Uruguay.
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Under yesterday’s deal, tax havens would have to open their books to other countries upon request, or face tough sanctions. Banks across the world face a regime of checks to guard against a repeat of the excessive lending that triggered the global financial meltdown.
“The agreement: the final G-20 document would state that the G-20 nations “stand ready to deploy sanctions to protect our public finances and financial systems. The era of banking secrecy is over. We note that the OECD has today published a list of countries assessed by the Global Forum against the international standard for exchange of tax information.””
Hehe, Anna. This is surely a French doing. Along with its new sidekick: Germany! But they can’t be too unhappy with Obama, can they?
Anna,
Please don’t mind my alter ego, Lorelie Fajardo. She’s just left over from a bad April Fool’s joke.
But we do need more of an insight into what’s going happening on the Continent of Europe. We don’t get much insight into all that around here.
Tell us please about “PROTECTIONISM”!
Protectionism? You mean, bank secrecy laws? Finito…
(Yep, Lorelie, France’s doing along with Germany and am proud Pres Sarkozy insisted on the resolution, and by gum, he’s right!)
Dean, your government and that of Lorelie’s will need to start engaging brain.
On the G20 resolution that will give OECD more powers of scrutiny over blacklisted countries: I can very well imagine that there are people around Gloria and Jose Pidal whispering to her Her Enchanted’s ears not to worry — that the Philippines is a sovereign country with sovereign bank and tax haven secrecy laws. Right! That’s a given.
There is no question that the Philippines may hide under its sovereign bank secrecy and tax haven laws. That’s a given.
Yes, the Philippines has all the right and can rightly claim so against the mighty and powerful. They can oppose any OECD “requests” or attempts to investigate or scrutinise the nation’s bank secrets and tax haven rules but at a price.
I have enumerated only some of the sanctions — and there could be others that could be levied against Pinas if it continues to play tough.
(I’ve got to review the OECD rules, treaties, etc; got a hard copy with me but its a couple of thousand pages thick so must find time to check out.)
One of the usual/common sanctions is that companies operating from country members of the OECD will be banned from doing business with the Philippines or face fines and even imprisonment of the boss and the erring manager.
The blacklisted country’s assets abroad runs the a huge risk of being confiscated.
Philippine bank transfer of funds abroad will be scrutinised minitiously all the time, will cost time, effort, money,etc. and if they cannot correctly explain what the funds are for, they will not be accepted, hence, where will that leave Philippine bank traders? What will happen to local businesses?
A list of the names of government officials from the erring country will be drawn up — those who are suspected of being party to the nation’s corrupt bank practices will not be allowed to step in countries that are OECD members or if they do, they run the risk of being arrested on the spot.
Assets found OECD member countires owned by erring/blacklisted countries run the risk of being confiscated. Bank doors in OECD member countries where those cash assets are buried will no longer be impregnable.
The sad thing is that even OFW foreign remittances might be affected, i.e., banks abroad could very well be banned from transfering funds to Manila banks — and where will that leave some 8 million or so RP familes and extended families?
This is no longer a joke. While Her Enchanted may not be personally severely affected, it is the mass of the impoverished population of the country that is bound to suffer.
OECD will become even tougher today. The “brigade de finances” in the EU is already on war footing or immediately after the release of the G20 summit resolution.
The only way to overturn that is for the Philippines to be completely, and I mean, completely transparent. Actually, Pinoys and Pinays should be elated at the prospect! Imagine, now you will be able to gather legal evidence against those that have truly and continue to be truly looting state coffers!
(Oh, and by the way, OECD’s brigade des finances welcomes documents from anonymous whistleblowers.)
Her Enchanted, including Her Enchanted’s Fat Consort and their cotterie of alagads should start engaging brain.
Lorelie,
Please give my love to Ate Gloria. Tell her, my stand against her is nothing personal — it’s just business. She will understand.