Clarita Alia's courage should be celebrated, not condemned
Nanay Clarita Alia is again under assault online. She lost four of her seven children to the Davao Death Squad between 2001 and 2007 and now she's again being subjected to online abuse just because she continued to show unrelenting and enormous courage in speaking out. She needs support, not ridicule nor condemnation.
Her sons were not saints, as she herself would point out. In my many conversations with her -- the last time just a few days ago -- she never depicted her children as perfect or faultless. But she knows it was wrong, very wrong, for them to be literally butchered by Duterte's killers regardless of what they had done. (They were not druglords or criminals, that's for sure.)
Her outrage is understandable and justified. As I point out in this oped published by The Hill just a few hours ago, her sons' murders were never investigated by the authorities no matter how hard she tried to call attention to the killings.
Clarita Alia ought to be celebrated, not condemned.
But Nanay Clarita keeps pressing on. So I ask those who are violating her yet again: Who among you have suffered such senseless loss, such horrific injustice and still have the will to be so unrelenting in your quest for justice?
Clarita Alia ought to be celebrated, not condemned.
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Read my old stories and posts about Nanay Clarita and the DDS: https://carlosconde.substack.com/t/davao-death-squad