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PASAY COP’SBRAVERY LEDTO INDIAN MAFIA

PASAY COP’SBRAVERY LEDTO INDIAN MAFIA By HERNZ CUARE

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“To serve and protect.”

Police Senior In-spector Renato V. Apolinario of Pa-say PNP Station gave meaning to

this motto in a display of an uncommon valor that can-not be found in any police officer who, pardon the im-pression, is more likely “to extort and collect.”

Apolinario, 52, breathed to near death after four bullets were pumped into his body as he answered his “call of duty” for a man not his blood and not his breed.

Apolinario’s act of pointing his pistol to at least three men of high-powered guns saved the life and liberty of an In-dian, Manjinder “James” Kumar, from fellow po-licemen who attempted to kidnap the latter in a ten-sion-filled drama on F. B. Harrison St., Pasay City, at 3:30 in the afternoon of December 20, 2010.

Apolinario’s heroics saved Kumar. Awed by

People’s justice system in Moroland

TEMPLE OF DOOM? - The Khalsa Diwan Indian Sikh Temple in Manila where the alleged alleged power struggle has been engaged that nearly cost the life of its president, Manjinder “James” Khumar.

The new toast of Philippine sports, the Philippine Azkals, take a break from their training. They will be facing Mongolia in the first leg of the Asian Football Confederation on Feb. 9 at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod.Read more on page 8

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the display of bravery, bystanders rushed Apoli-nario to the nearest hos-pital without any second thought.

The act of Apolinario in pointing his gun and identifying himself as a police officer caused a deadlock of sort: the po-licemen-kidnappers were obviously startled by the sudden show of bravery of one uniformed man. They did not expect it.

Kumar saw this and he, too, summoned his own courage. He pushed the Armalite of the police-man fronting him, then ran with all his might toward Apolinario. A few seconds more, the kidnapping po-licemen got back to their senses and sprayed bullets in the direction of Kumar and Apolinario.

Apolinario fell on the spot where he stood his ground. All but one bullet that hit found its mark on

DILEMMA IN BAGUILAWA -- Residents of Brgy. Baguilawa object the proposed construction of a dumpsite by the local government of Bauan, Batangas. The project, if it pushes through, will create environmental destruction and poison the spring that is the source of water in the area.

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But block provided by Apolinario was enough for Kumar to make good his escape and disappear.

What is more?

The act of Apolinario did not only save the life of Kumar. It led to the discovery of an unholy al-liance among policemen and rogue Indians.

For this, two honor medals—Medalya ng Sug-atang Magiting (Wounded Personnel Medal) and Medalya ng Kagalingan (Medal of Merit)—were pinned on him by his boss, Police Director Nicanor Bartolome, chief of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO).

Bartolome took time to visit Apolinario while re-cuperating at his house in Pasay City just to confer

these two police badges of honor.

Call of Duty

The call of duty came unexpected for Apolinario.

This came while he performed his main duty as the chief of the Motor-ized Anti-Street Criminal-ity Operatives (MASCO) of Pasay City Police Of-fice.

In complete uniform and on board his motor-cycle, he motored to where his teams were dispatched only to be surprised along the way.

While driving along F. B. Harrison St., Apolinar-io stopped his motorcycle because the traffic was not moving.

While resting the mo-torcycle on the road, he noticed a commotion be-side a white van put to a halt in front of Aliw Inn.

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He saw one man smashing the butt of a rifle on a window glass of the van. He saw another man standing in front of a door of the vehicle poking a rifle at Kumar.

The overpowering sight did not stop Apoli-nario from drawing his pistol. He poked his pis-tol at the persons armed with high-powered guns. He identified himself as a policeman. He told them to freeze.

These evil men identi-fied themselves to Apoli-nario that they, too, were law enforcers, policemen and NBI agents.

Kumar, still young at 31 years old but already the president of Khalsa Diwan Indian Sect, saw an opportunity to escape.

Thus, the Indian shoved away the rifle pointing at him and ran with all his might toward his savior, Apolinario.

As he was about to reach Apolinario, Kumar told the cop to protect him from the gunmen, insisting he was being kidnapped.

Without hesitance, Apolinario told Kumar to take cover on his back.

At this point, bullets came spraying on them, hitting Apolinario in the chest and other parts of his body. He fell to the pave-ment. While gasping for breath, he ordered Kumar to escape.

Seeing Apolinario was still alive, one of the gun-men ordered another to fin-

ish off the brave good cop. The bad men escaped.

They brought along with them the white Mazda Friendee (plate no. BDN 479) commandeered from Kumar’s friends, Ferdi-nand S. Ret and Andy Ngie, another Indian.

Apolinario sustained four gunshot wounds in the body. He was treated at San Juan De Dios Hos-pital, the same medical place where Kumar went for treatment of his bullet wound.

Unholy alliance ofcops and criminals

On January 5, 2011, while still recuperating from his wounds and se-ries of operations, Apoli-nario watched a television program of ABS-CBN.

Accidentally or inci-dentally, the one flashed on the screen was a pro-gram showing host Gus Abelgas interviewing Po-lice Chief Inspector Edwin T. Faycho.

This sight sparked memory to come back to Apolinario and he recog-nized the face of Faycho as the man who identified himself during the kidnap-ping incident as saying: “Pulis kami. Opisyal din ako.”

Faycho was then being presented in that TV show as the chief of Quezon City Police District-Anti Illegal Drugs-Special Op-erations Task Force.

Apolinario was stunned

a bit and confused. He cannot believe his eyes that a fellow police official would do such a despi-cable and detestable act of kidnapping.

But he was sure it was Faycho who was the one he saw telling him, “Pulis kami. Opisyal din ako.”

Nevertheless, Apoli-nario was now convinced that there is indeed a syn-dicate involving his fel-lows in uniform.

And his discovery led to the expose that is pain-ful to him for he will be compelled to testify to bust, once and for all, this particular mafia within the police organization.

Thus, Apolinario pro-vided the strongest foun-dation to the theory that Pasay City Police Office formulated while gather-ing pieces of circumstan-tial evidence conducted by its Station Investigation and Detection Manage-ment (SIDM) performing tasks directly supervised and controlled by chief of police, Senior Supt. Napo-leon Cuaton.

This syndicate eventu-ally killed Ret and Ngie, both were found with their bodies already desecrated.

Diligent probe doneby Pasay PNP

The work of the Pa-say PNP led it to discover that before the shooting incident last December 20, the Pasay City Po-lice Tactical Operations

Center (TOC) received a call from Southern Police District-TOC informing them that policemen from Quezon City Police Dis-trict (QCPD) were set to conduct a police operation in Pasay.

The call specified that the policemen involved in this alleged police operation were to come from QCPD’s District Anti-Illegal Drug-Special Operation Task Group (DAID-SOTF).

It is a standard operat-ing procedure for the PNP to require coordination when one unit is to oper-ate within the area of ju-risdiction of another PNP unit. This is done to avoid misencounter.

The Pasay Police’s SIDM cops obtained evi-dence that half an hour be-fore the incident, QCPD-DAID-SOTF elements were spotted near Police Community Precinct No. 4 of Pasay City.

This community pre-cinct is located at the city’s public market on Taft Av-enue. From this place, it would take two to five minutes of travel to the crime scene.

The SIDM cops estab-lished that at 3:52 p.m. or about 22 minutes after the shooting, QCPD-DAID-SOTF operatives appeared at the Police Community Precinct No. 11 located behind the Mall of Asia, Bay Blvd.

These DAID-SOTF policemen requested to put into records that their team

led by Chief Insp. Faycho will be conducting police operation within the area.

Chief Insp. Rolando Baula, chief of PCP No. 11, asked for a coordina-tion sheet but the DAID cops failed to produce. For this, the DAID cops left claiming they will get the required documents. They never came back.

Witnesses gathered by SIDM swore that they heard the criminals iden-tifying first themselves as police officers and agents of NBI before shooting Apolinario and Kumar.

SIDM also gathered that at 10:00 p.m. of De-cember 20, the Pasay City PNP received a call informing them that a white Mazda (RBU 450) was seen parked beside the Quezon City Women’s Jail Building inside Camp Karingal.

Verification with the LTO through Blackberry Traffic Identification Sys-tem indicated that the license plate RBU 450 belonged to a green Mit-subishi Delica and not to a Mazda Friendee van.

With this information, a team led by Chief Inspec-tor Joey Goforth was dis-patched to Camp Karingal.

But when Goforth’s team arrived in Camp Kar-ingal, they were informed that the Mazda van was already driven out of the camp by an unidentified man.

Meanwhile, Ching Lio

By TOTO CAUSING

BARANGAY Baguilawa in Bauan, Batangas is like a social volcano ready to erupt over the threat posed by their local government to the lives of the resi-dents.

The threat, fast becom-ing present and danger, is the proposal to construct and develop a landfill in a nearby mountain.

The planned dump is being pushed by the of-ficials of the town to be located at an area to be scraped of trees and that site sits just above the spring from which all the houses in this barangay beget their fresh water.

It is revolting to the conscience of all residents there for this municipal project that destroy a part of the entire forest in the town. That part would be as big as the requirement of at least 20,000 dump trucks of garbage a day and the access roads for these dump trucks.

Barangay Chairman Rommel Cruzat Caguete told Dyaryo Magdalo that if this happens, the resi-dents of his barangay will be the most prejudiced.

If this landfill project will happen the source of the water for the baran-gay will be contaminated and would run out. This is because the trees that pro-vide the steady supply of water to the ground water table will be cut down to give way for the construc-tion of the landfill.

Chairman Caguete told Marcos “Bong” Man-lapaz, president of Yel-low Armies Para Sa Ka-likasan at Proteksyon, Inc. (YAKAP, Inc.), that they have been fighting against the landfill project for about three years now but it seems that their munici-pal officials are rejecting the voices of dissent from Baguilawa residents.

He said that they have already submitted strongly-worded barangay resolution expressing their strong sentiment against the project on the grounds of environmental destruc-tion and the loss of water

for all residents of Bagu-ilawa.

The residents support-ed their barangay officials strongly but the fears in their hearts and mind get more and more each day.

The village head is worried that despite the very strong opposition words never end to circu-late that the landfill was almost in place because of the money of the investor who they suspected has already bought the area of rugged land full of trees standing just above where the crystal spring water flows from.

Additionally, they also feared that their council-ors, vice mayor and mayor have already been paid to pass an ordinance to allow the landfill project.

The chairman was overwhelmingly reelected in the October 25, 2011 barangay election and the clear mandate given him by his people is to stop at all cost the landfill project.

PhP100-million-a-dayearning project

Words coming to the officials of the barangay said that the landfill shall be designed to serve the garbage of Metro Manila, Batangas City, Lipa City and municipalities, includ-ing Bauan itself.

They heard that the landfill must be big be-cause it was projected to receive 20,000 dump trucks a day.

If one dump truck would pay Php5,000, the income is easily Php100 million a day for the pri-vate owner.

“The money is so big to be refused. This means that the project proponent can spend up to Php1 bil-lion as bribes if only to ensure that all the officials approve it.

False findings of DENR paved way for approval of ECC

An indispensable re-quirement for any landfill project is an environmen-tal compliance certificate (ECC), to ensure that the damage to the environ-ment shall be least or none.

To be issued with an ECC, it has to be con-firmed by scientific and technical studies that there is no damage that may be caused on the environment and that a public hearing must be conducted to de-termine whether the pro-posed project would hurt the sensitivities of the af-fected residents.

For example, it is required that landfills must not be located in a place where an aquifer or groundwater or watershed is located.

These prohibitions are contained under Section 42 of Republic Act 9003.

The barangay chair-man told YAKAP, Inc. and Dyaryo Magdalo that the report of the study con-ducted by the technical men of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) was manipulated to make it appear that the site of the planned landfill is lower in elevation and the adjacent spring.

The truth of the mat-ter as confirmed by the actual visits of the site by members and officials of YAKAP is that the reverse is true: THE SPRING IS LOWER IN ELEVATION THAN THE SITE OF PROPOSED LANDFILL.

“This is despicable! This is the highest form

of corruption,” exclaimed Manlapaz.

YAKAP is prepar-ing to file criminal, civil and administrative cases against the officials of the DENR and other pub-lic officials who would have a hand in the ap-proval of the ECC.

As a result of the false

Barangay Baguilawa chairman Rommel Cruzat Caguete (right) in a meeting with YAKAP officers headed by its president Marcos “Bong” Manlapaz.

report, the application for an ECC was said to have been approved during the time of former Manila Mayor Lito Atienza as the DENR secretary.

Manipulated public hearing

The chairman of the barangay disclosed to

Dyaryo Magdalo that the public hearings that were conducted were manipu-lated that it turned out that it was only Barangay Ba-guilawa that is opposing the landfill project.

“I am wondering why barangays adjacent or cov-ering the landfill project was said to have approved

the proposal,” the baran-gay chairman lamented.

Seeking help from PNoy

The residents were supported by YAKAP, Inc. in their desire to bring their problem to President Benigno Simeon Cojuang-co Aquino III.

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Undying heroism ofSgt. Jose CalugasWAR medal is a quest of every soldier in the battlefield, but it can only be acquired by someone who

displays a death-defying stunt or somewhat like challenging the fangs of death. Just like what a Filipino soldier, Captain Jose Calugas, did during World War II that the Americans can never forget.

Until his death on January 18, 1998 in Tacoma, Washington DC, the heroism of Calugas was not buried by the Americans. As a retired captain of the United States Army in 1957, Calugas was prized

with military honors at St. Leo’s Catholic Church at 13th street in Tacoma.The gallantry of Calugas was demonstrated on January 6, 1942 in the Filipino-American war against the Japa-

nese forces near Barrio Culisin in the province of Bataan.His unit took over the vacuum left in the battlefield when a portion of the United States Army Forces in the Far

East (USAFFE) withdrew together with the 26th Cavalry Regiment of the Philippine Scouts and the 31st Infantry Regiment.

Calugas, assigned with the 88th Field Artillery of the Philippine Scouts, was then a mess sergeant in charge of a group of soldiers preparing the day’s meals, or for clarity, he’s in command of the kitchen known as KP Duty.

Recommendationto MILF panel

The proposition I state here is being earnestly recommended to the MILF panel headed by Mohaqer Iqbal.

I strongly believe that if I am given the full opportunity to explain this idea to the MILF panel, I believe I can con-vince the Moro people to embrace this as their main talking point when the peace negotiation begins on February 9,

2011 in Malaysia.I also believe that the Fiilipino

Christians will embrace this idea as their official act of repentance for the past sins, recognition of the Moro’s blood and lands, and respect for the way they worship.

When this is accepted, I can see the whole land singing the song, “There is not a Christian Filipino. There is not a Muslim Filipino. There is not an indig-enous Filipino. There is one Filipino.”

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HIGHEST HONOR -- Jose Calugas, Sr., the first Filipino Sergeant of the Philippine Scouts to receive America’s highest award, the Congressio-nal Medal of Honor, for combat valor during the Battle of Bataan in 1942.

The US Congressional Medal of Honor

During a battle on Jan. 16, 1942, Calugas noticed that one of his unit’s guns had been silenced, and its crews were all lying life-less on the ground.

He studied the battle-field as well as the move-ments of fellow soldiers. He observed that no one has the heart to run across the battlefield to handle gun against the advancing adversaries.

He waited for his supe-riors’ order for the soldiers to salvage and fire the sta-tioned gun, but his waiting has only worsened the po-sition of his unit.

Without orders, Calu-gas persuaded his 16 bud-dies to run and crawl a kilometer across the bat-tlefield under severe fire to be able to reach and man the US gun.

He and only one un-named soldier were brave enough to run, ditch, crawl for a number of times in the midst of hovering bul-lets until they touched the barrel of the US gun.

Calugas and his mate fixed the gun and sprayed blazing bullets, holding off the Japanese forces in a whole afternoon of gunbattle, giving enough time for the US troops to regroup and dig into the enemies’ line.

When the battle was silenced by the darkness of the night, Calugas re-turned to the mess hall to feed the starving soldiers.

Calugas was recom-mended by his superiors for the United States mili-tary’s highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor.

The Battle of Bataan represented the most in-

tense phase of Imperial Japan’s invasion of the Philippines during World War II.

During the final stages of the battle and after re-peated assaults and artil-lery fire by Japanese forc-es, the communications

and defenses of the allies on Bataan peninsula had been almost completely destroyed.

On the last two days, the entire Allied defense collapsed, clogging all roads with refugees and fleeing troops.

By April 8, 1942, the most senior US com-mander on Bataan, Major General Edward “Ned” P. King, Jr., recognized the futility of further resis-tance.

The next day, approxi-mately 76,000 Filipinos and American troops sur-rendered to a Japanese army of 54,000 men un-der Lt. General Masaharu Homma. This was the single largest surrender of one of its military forces in American history.

The surrender of the Allied forces happened

before Calugas could be decorated with the Medal of Honor.

Calugas had to follow the commander’s order to surrender and along with the other prisoners of war they took the long walk from Mariveles, Bataan to

Camp O’Donnell, a prison camp in the province of Tarlac, or now popularly known as the “Death March.”

The Death March was a 63-mile march with no food, only a sip of water. It was characterized by physical violence and mur-ders: specifically behead-ing, throat-cutting, shoot-ing, death by bayonet, rape, disembowelment, rifle-butt beating, and deliberate starvation or dehydration on the week-long continual march in the tropical heat. Falling down or inability to con-tinue moving was a death sentence, as was any de-gree of protest.

After the Death March, Calugas spent nine months in a prison camp until January 1943 when he was released to work for the

Japanese. While working in a

Japanese-controlled rice mill, Calugas set up a spy network for Philippine guerrillas, coordinating with a guerrilla unit, #227 Old Bronco. As an offi-cer of the guerrilla unit, he participated in the at-tack on the Japanese gar-rison at Karangalan. His unit fought in the contin-ued campaign against the Japanese, which campaign eventually led to the lib-eration of the Philippines.

After the liberation of the Philippines in 1945 Calugas finally received the Medal of Honor that was approved even before the new campaign had be-gun to start.

The Medal was pre-sented to him by US Army General George Marshall.

Calugas subsequently accepted a direct com-mission from the United States Army. He was later assigned to the 44th In-

fantry Regiment that oc-cupied Okinawa, Japan. When the unit disbanded in 1947, he was assigned to the Ryukyu Command on Ryukyu Islands in the South China Sea where he remained until 1953.

Other than the Medal of Honor, the 27 years of military service (1930-1957) of this Ilonggo were decorated with Dis-tinguished Unit Citation, Prisoner of War Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (with two service stars), World War II Vic-tory Medal, Philippine Defense Medal and Philip-pine Liberation Medal.

Calugas was born in Barrio Tagsing, Leon, Il-oilo, Philippines on De-cember 29, 1907. In 1930, he enlisted in the United States Army and received his basic training at Fort

Sill, Oklahoma. Upon completion, he received additional training as an artilleryman and then as-signed to the 24th Artillery Regiment of the Philippine Scouts at Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga.

While stationed at Fort Stotsenburg, he married and raised a family. His next unit was the 88th Field Artillery Regiment

of the Philippine Scouts. He was a sergeant with Battery B when the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth declared war with Japan in 1941. His unit was mobilized for duty and sent to Bataan in December 1941.

Although he had been born in a US territory, and had fought for the United

States’ Army, Calugas technically was not an American citizen.

Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, Philippine residents were classified as US nationals. It was only in the 1934 Tydings-McDuffie Act, or Philippine Independence Act, that Filipinos were reclassified as non-US citizens.

While serv-ing in Okinawa, Calugas com-pleted the pro-cess of becom-ing a naturalized United States citizen.

When Calu-gas eventually retired from the army with the rank of cap-tain in 1957, he moved to Taco-ma, Washington with his family. After retiring, he went to school and earned a de-

gree in Business Adminis-tration from the University of Puget Sound in 1961. He then worked for Boe-ing Corporation.

To further his educa-tion with the new career, he got involved in several veterans groups within the Seattle and Tacoma area. He died in Tacoma

on January 18, 1998 at the age of 90. He was buried at Mountain View Memo-rial Park in Tacoma, Wash-ington.

Within the family housing area of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, a street known as Calugas Circle was dedicated in his hon-or, with his family present, in 1999.

His Medal of Honor was given to the Fort’s museum for safekeeping.

In 2006, a 36-unit apartment building, de-signed for low-income and disabled residents was dedicated as the “Sgt. Jose Calugas, Sr. Apartments” in High Point, Seattle

On Memorial Day in 2009, his memory was honored at the Living War Memorial Park on a me-morial that had previously been established.

Can there be another Filipino, Christian or Mus-lim, who can duplicate the feat of this Medal of Hon-or recipient?

Yes, it is believed. As gallant as the Chris-

tian fighters who graced the country, Moro brave men have proven to the world that they are a tough nut to crack!

In fact, Bangsamoro men are still fighting for the cherished dream to freedom!

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Jerry’s Blogs

By JERRY S. YAP

Privileged spits

By TOTO C. CAUSING

Full but delegated sovereignty& people’s justice system in Moroland

Congressman of poker & billiard?

Happy faces often await a congressman in a poker room at Pan Pacific Hotel in Malate, Manila.

He’s the favorite of poker players. He’s not minding throwing away P1 million in a poker play. No sweat.

After feeling content of losing a million in cards, he’ll try his luck on billiard tables. His rivals, hustlers that be, are all smiles to the ears. They have their all night blessings, courtesy of Mr. Congressman.

Yes, Mr. Congress-man affords himself los-ing millions per night for his favorite – gambling.

Anyway, what is three million pesos for Mr. Congressman? He has banks of money. For him, it’s just chicken

wings.Hope, you are familiar

with Mr. Congressman.Aside from poker and

billiard, Mr. Congressman is fond of boxing, too.

“Kotong” PNP-HPG in CaLaBaRZon (Paging: C/Supt

Leonardo Espina)

I am calling the atten-tion of PNP Highway Pa-trol Group (HPG) director, Chief Supt. LEORNADO ESPINA.

Sir, some of your men are mulcting from pas-senger buses in Southern Tagalog.

Preying on “KOLO-RUM” passenger buses is a “no-no.” How much more if HPG men pest on buses maintained by legiti-mate bus operators?

We received a number of complaints against HPG

MOBILE PATROL 403, a certain “BALYENTE” and one known as “PO3 AK-47 SOLOSA.” They were reported to be like shining blades.

They’re too sharp. As if they can slice apart bus and jeepney operators by mere standing by the roadside, especially in the areas of Lucena City to Batangas City.

A failure to hand over the “tong” will result in unreasonable traffic vio-lations of drivers of bus, jeepney and GT express.

By the way, Gen. Es-pina and SOLOSA are al-ways brandishing an AK-47, a non-official firearm of the PNP.

PNP-HPG Region IV-A chief, Sr. Supt. ANTONIO GARDIOLA Jr., the noto-riety of your men is a lethal insult to your name.

Act now, SSupt. Gar-diola before GEN. ESPI-NA stretches out arms.

Betty and Anna, Jacks of all trades in BI

The operation of two fixers–witches BETTY CHUWAWA and ANNA SEY–in the Bureau of Im-migration (BI) Main office holds no bar.

They surpass the im-possible. With closed eyes, they can process all kinds of visas. You name it, they can do it! From tempo-rary visitor’s visa, recog-nizance visa, 13-A, quota visa, SRRV visa to 9G. For them, it’s just a piece of cake, especially that they now have the right con-nection to the BI-OCOM.

One that the Congress has to investigate is the 9G visa or employment visa.

BOGUS COMPANIES are used by Betty Chu-wawa and Anna Sey in the documents they pro-cessed. They are charging their clients P90,000 to P120,000.

Most of their clients are Chinese nationals who are issued with missionary visa despite their not being missionaries.

Betty Chuwawa is the godmother of GLENDA and SOCKY, owners of a travel agency. The travel agency is played by finger-strings of Betty’s syndi-cate.

Numbers of BI officials are wondering what magic the two witches have that they process their transac-tions at the BI-OCOM in a too loose and too fast mode?

Simple answer: They are “TANGING ANAK”

of “TANGING INA!”The witches can even

dictate the Board of Spe-cial Inquiry.

SSS Lucena clarifies

The officials of Social Security System, Lucena City clarify the complaint on the discourteous and arrogant acts of their teller and security guard.

They ask for forgive-ness, and if ever there’s such incident, they assure that it was just an ISO-LATED CASE.

They clarify that in all SSS branches, num-bers issued in queues are required in transacting business. This is a normal practice to avoid disarray in public office for equal service to the transacting public.

It so happened that on

that day, somebody com-plained. The number of the client had been called, and due to his/her absence, long queues of numbers had been served, burying his/hers. It was quite impossible to prioritize him/her for others might also voice their protest.

Anyway, the problem was solved that day.

To the transacting parties at SSS Lucena, if ever you have al-ready been issued your number, finish first your transaction before roam-ing around or going to the CR.

So this means that even if you cannot stop your urge of peeing, stay where you are for your number might be called without you being pres-ent.

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IF I were to decide what peace pact should be done in Mindanao, I will insist that the Muslims be granted full but delegated sovereignty over their territories and its justice system should be what I could call as “people’s justice system.”

By a legislative fiat, or an act of the Congress, this can be done without going against the prin-ciples of the present Con-stitution.

This proposal will answer the long story of blindness to pay for the sins committed for at least four centuries and give recognition and re-spect to the humanity and religion of the Moros who have long deserved to be heard by the deaf-ness in us Christians.

These sins were con-stituted in part by the tens of thousands of natives killed by the Spanish conquistadores who used Visayas and Luzon na-tives to invade them.

These sins were con-stituted in part by other tens of thousands of Mo-ros killed by the Ameri-can occupation forces that also used Visayas and Luzon natives as part of their infantries in their bid to subjugate the Da-tus and their men.

These sins were con-stituted in part by the hundreds of thousands of deaths caused by the invasion by the national government when Mar-cos sent in soldiers from Visayas and Luzon to stop the call for freedom of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) led by Nur Misuari.

These types of sins were repeated when then President Joseph Estrada staged all-out war against Moro Islamic Libera-

tion Front (MILF) that led to the recovery of Camp Abubakar. Tens of thou-sands were killed in this particular official action of the national government.

These deaths were ag-gravated by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II.

Past is past and those lives lost can never be res-urrected to life once more. We can never repay for these sins but we can re-pent and beg for forgive-ness from the Moros and hope they will forgive us Christians.

But giving them full but delegated sovereignty whereby they can deter-mine their own fate with only the Constitution as the limitation will reinforce the faith in the virtue of forgiv-ing.

Sins of the past were also constituted by other acts.

The American colonial government in the 1930s sent in Christians from Visayas and Luzon to oc-cupy lands in Mindanao, Palawan and Sulu through homestead patents of 24 hectares each.

After independence was granted by the USA on July 4, 1946, the national government again sent in Christian settlers from the Visayas and Luzon, mas-sively, during the presi-dency of Magsaysay by means of luring them out of Hukbalahap rebellion with homestead patents of 12 hectares each.

As a result, the Moros and the indigenous people lost substantial part of their ancestral domains to waves of migration of Christians from the Visayas and Lu-zon.

Yes, we can no longer give back the lands they lost to Christian Filipinos, but the national govern-

ment can always deliver an official statement of apol-ogy through the Congress of the Philippines to be re-iterated in flag-ceremonies in all schools in Mindanao, particularly in lands now belonging to Christian set-tlers.

As men of hearts, too, the Moro people will em-brace the virtue of giving in order to make life worth living. And I believe that if the national government will pass a law to give reparation payments for all the lands lost to Christian settlers, the Moro broth-ers will always be ready to embrace us Christians as their brothers in blood and brothers in need.

And giving them full but delegated sovereignty over what remained of their territories will always be a welcome road to peace.

And if this is a road to peace, we all must take that path. As Mahatma Gandhi said, “There is no road to peace. Peace is the path.”

Along with these enu-merated and irreversible sins of the past, the national government dominated by Christian politicians and the Christian settlers ex-hibited discriminatory acts and behaviors embodied in the laws, acts in the actual implementation of laws, policies and rules that the benefits given just trickle down to the Muslims, acts and discriminatory stereo-types of belittling dignity when Moro people come passing by, and other acts of bias that are revolting to conscience. Yes, we Chris-

tians have never thought: “What if we Christians were born Muslims and the Moros were born Chris-tians?”

These deeply-rooted biases are the general ex-planation why you can hear extremist Abu Sayyaf be-heading Christian marines whenever they would have the opportunity. These are the reasons why you can hear Christian hostages also got their heads falling on the ground, too. These are the reasons why you can hear brutalities done by them whenever they would have opportunities.

We condemn these acts because they are truly revolting. But have we Christians ever condemned Christians doing the same to Moros?

Nevertheless, if we compare these brutalities done by the Moros to the centuries of madness that had bedeviled them we can readily see that the former pales too far in comparison to the latter.

In the present, we hear full details of brutalities brought forth by the high-technology communication facilities. But it is very reasonable to conclude also that the brutalities of the past could have been worse had they been reported.

Yes, it is very sure that the Spanish officers and their soldiers composed mainly of Christian Filipi-nos must have committed detestable and despicable acts against the fighters and residents of Lanao, Cota-bato and Sulu archipelago.

Yes, I also believe that the American soldiers must have also committed acts that are revolting to con-science when they invaded Mindanao and Sulu. Re-member that the .45 pistol was invented because of the “juramentados” of the Datus whose kris swords even cut into uselessness the rifles the Yankees used.

Yes, I also believe in the stories of Ilaga (a militia of Marcos composed mainly of my fellow Ilonggo set-tlers in Mindanao) eating the ears or other flesh of their Muslim captives in the 1970s.

Can we Christians now stand up and have an un-common bravery to ask for forgiveness although we see our marines beheaded and pastors or priest brutal-ly killed and although it is almost impossible for them to forgive us?

Yes, I believe there is such a thing as love that springs eternal for one who knows how to repent and ask for forgiveness.

And if this full but del-egated sovereignty is given the Muslims in the South, the act of great peace will open the door.

The full butdelegated sovereignty

The full but delegated sovereignty I am propos-ing to give to the Muslims is one where the people of the Bangsamoro land will have full discretions of what they would do with respect to all aspects of governance, civil and polit-

ical rights, rights to explore and develop and utilize the national wealth and other forms of natural resources, rights to impose and col-lect taxes, rights to have own police forces, rights to education curricula, and almost all other rights.

An organic act for Bangsamoro may be passed by the Congress to give it the right to pass its own laws and for it to be exempt from the applica-tion of the laws supposed to be for the entire Philip-pines with only the Phil-ippine Constitution as the limit.

Thus, with this organic act it can now have the power to create provinces, towns, cities and barangays and it shall be governed by a Governor General. It can supervise its own elections through the delegated pow-er form the Commission on Elections. It can have its own judicial governor under the delegated powers from the Supreme Court. It can determine its taxa-tion and customs schemes with only the Constitution as the limitations. It can do almost endless acts with only the Constitution as the limitation.

In terms of military, the national government will still be the one that will provide them external defenses against foreign invaders and terrorists because the Constitution wills that there will only be one armed force in the Philippines.

Now, for every income the Bangsamoro will get from taxes, fees, customs and utilization of the nation-al wealth and other natural resources, it will be shared with the national govern-ment on the proportion ac-ceptable to both parties.

Of course, the Moros shall retain the right to

vote for president, vice-president and senators in national elections and will still retain the right to send their own district congressmen to fight for their welfare in the na-tional government.

People’s justice system

Since it is not repug-nant to the Constitution, I will put in place a justice system where the pres-ent courts, including the Shari’ah courts, shall be peopled by the represen-tatives chosen by raffle from the Muslim people themselves.

These people shall form as a group of laymen who will adjudge who are telling the truth and who are not in all cases. The judges in these courts, in-cluding Shari’ah courts, shall perform the job of applying the laws on the truth found by the lay-men-jurors.

To ensure that the non-royal blooded Moros have fair fighting chance in every criminal com-plaint to be determined to be brought to court for trial or not, the fiscal’s or the Ombudsman’s job of saying who should be tried in court shall also be given to the representa-tives chosen from Mus-lim voters.

Each group of those picked to perform the duty of saying who should be charged in court in every Muslim province shall serve for a term of six months and their faces and names shall be hidden from the Moro communities so as to ensure their indepen-dence of deciding who should be charged in court and who should be spared.

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Hernz quarry

By HERNANI CUARE

Jannarally speakingBy JULMUNIR I. JANNARAL

Give us our sharefrom oil drill in Sulu

Presidents unmake and make rebels

AS the resumption of the peace talks between the Government of the Re-public of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Is-lamic Liberation Front (MILF) draws near in Kuala Lumpur, Malay-sia, I hope that a Final Peace Agreement simi-lar to the one signed by the government and the Moro National Libera-tion Front (MNLF) will be achieved, too. The re-sumption has been set to start on this February 9.

The good thing with the GRP-MNLF Final Peace Agreement is that when it was signed on September 2, 1996 the founder of the MNLF, Chairman Nur Misuari personally signed the pact in the presence of the official representative of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

And if the MILF pact is approved, it is differ-ent in the sense that its founding chair, Ustadz Salamat Hashim, will no longer be around. His successor Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim will be the one who will wit-ness the signing of the deal that hopefully would stop once and for all the fratricidal war in Min-danao that has brought sufferings to the thou-sands of Bangsamoro people.

It may be recalled Ustadz Salamat, a well-known Islamic theolo-gian who graduated from Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt died of a

heart ailment somewhere in the second district of Lanao del Sur in 2003.

He was born in Baran-gay Cudal, Pagalungan, Maguindanao. After fin-ishing Islamic theology, he helped Chairman Misuari organize the MNLF in the early 1970s and became the vice chairman. Howev-er, they parted ways due to irreconcilable ideological differences that led to the birth of the MILF in 1980.

Sometime also in 1997, it was my first time to meet Ustadz Salamat at his sprawling Camp Abubakar Asiddik, This columnist happened to be in the me-dia entourage of former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. in that visit to the camp.

Our entourage was di-vided into two groups. We boarded two identical Lear jets. It was my first time to board such a small jet plane that travelled so fast. We arrived in just an hour or more at the Awang Air-port in Maguindanao prov-ince. Then we motored to Camp Abubakar, the for-mer MILF high headquar-ters situated in the area of Matanog municipality.

It was during the time of former President Jo-seph Estrada that this main bastion of the MILF was captured by the govern-ment. Estrada ordered the military to launch an all-out war against the MILF freedom fighters.

After a barrage of bom-bardment and military as-sault on the MILF mujahi-deen, Camp Abubakar had fallen and on July 10, 2000

the government totally liberated Camp Abubakar and drove out up to the last MILF mujahideen from the camp.

On this same day Presi-dent Estrada arrived at the camp to lead a symbolic flag-raising ceremony, al-though a day earlier the Philippine flag was already hoisted near the madrasah (Islamic school) adjacent to the MILF’s Abdulrah-man Bedis Memorial Military Academy. I can recall also that it was in the compound of this MILF military academy where I performed my Asr (after-noon prayer) at past 3:00 pm together with some of MILF combatants.

The visit of Estrada to the fallen Camp Abubakar was criticized by Muslim ummah (community) af-ter newspaper reports said that Estrada celebrated the government’s victory over the Moro rebels’ bastion with several bottle of beers and feasted on a lechon or roasted pig.

What added an insult to an injury according to a friend from Maguin-danao, Estrada and the soldiers had their instant party inside the madrasah where an Ustadz (Muslim teacher) used to impart the teachings of Islam to their students. The ma-drasah was situated just a few meters away from the mosque.

My memory of the Camp Abubakar visit was deleted just like any data from the hard disk of a computer when former Malacañang occupant

Gloria Arroyo renamed it as Camp Iranun in 2005, perhaps in honor of the peaceful Iranun tribe of Maguindanao.

Subsequently it be-came a “peace zone” and residents have since been witnessing tremendous pouring in of local and foreign-funded projects meant to complement the efforts of accelerating the socio-economic growth of local communities.

Muslims in the Sulu Archi-pelago demand share from oil

drilling in Sulu Sea

The Muslims in the Sulu Archipelago, includ-ing the Tausug people of the Province of Sulu and the Sama of Tawi-Tawi are demanding their fair share from the oil drilling being conducted by Exxonmobil Exploration and Produc-tion Philippines in the Sulu Sea.

Rep. Tupay Loong of the First District of Sulu introduced House Reso-lution No. 30, dubbed a “Resolution directing the appropriate House Com-mittees to conduct an in-quiry, in aid of legislation, into the oil drilling explo-rations conducted at the Sulu Sea.”

Loong divulged that the Exxonmobil Exploration and Production Philippines had started drilling its ex-ploration well in Sulu Sea under the Department of Energy Service Contract (SC-56) in October 2009.

Loong’s Resolution No. 30 stated that Sulu Sea is part of the territorial wa-

ters and national patrimo-ny of the Province of Sulu, one of the five component provinces of the Autono-mous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The Tausug congress-man emphasized that any contract entered into by the national government pertaining to the Sulu Sea should respect the primary concern of the people of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.

This position is even strengthened by Republic Act No. 9054 or the new Organic Act of the ARMM whereby the people of the Sulu Archipelago is given the opportunity to partici-pate in decision-making.

Finally, Rep. Loong in-formed the Department of Energy that the Muslims in Mindanao should benefit out of this oil drilling by virtue of the Law on Na-tional Economy and Patri-mony.

Gov. Sadikul Sahali of the Province of Tawi-Tawi, in a recent meeting with this columnist, said Exx-onmobil has been conduct-ing oil exploration near the town of Mapun (formerly Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi) and this has no proper con-sultation with his people by conducting public hearing.

“We are not properly informed by the Depart-ment of Energy in particu-lar about the activity of Exxonmobil. There was no public hearing (that was) conducted but merely pub-lic information,” Sahali told this columnist.

Somehow, the Muslims in the Sulu Archipelago should be grateful to Rep.

Tupay Loong for divulg-ing the oil drilling activity of Exxonmobil in the Sulu Sea.

Otherwise, the people in this archipelago will not benefit even a “liter of oil.”

Shari’ah Training,a continuing program

of the NCMF

Secretary and Chief Ex-ecutive Officer Bai Omera Dianalan-Lucman who said she continue to ad-minister the mandate of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) with dedication said they will hold Shari’ah (Muslim law) training seminar as a continuing program of the NCMF.

For those who have not yet known, the NCMF is now the agency that used to be known as the Office on Muslim Affairs (OMA), created by law to look af-ter the welfare of Muslim Filipinos.

On January 22, the NCMF in the Zamboanga Peninsula or Region IX headed by Acting Regional Director Dennison M. Abi-din held their opening pro-gram for their participants in the 12th Shari’ah Train-ing Seminar in Zamboanga City.

My good friend and contemporary Datu Mufti G. Jaafar, who is one of the NCMF commissioners representing the Province of Tawi-Tawi, was the guest of honor and keynote speaker.

Commissioner Jaafar, who is a younger brother of Rep. Nur G. Jaafar of

the Lone District of Tawi-Tawi, eloquently delivered his speech be-fore NCMF Region IX officials and employees and the participants of the Shari’ah Training Seminar. He discussed “The Significance of Shari’ah in relation to Code of Muslim Per-sonal Laws of the Phil-ippines.”

* * *P O S T S C R I P T :

Dyaryo Magdalo through this column thanks Aleem Said Ah-mad Basher, who is the chairman of the Imam Council of the Philip-pines, for describing the weekly as “fearless but fair Dyaryo Mag-dalo”; Nash Pangada-pun, who is the secretary general of Maradeka, a civil society group in the Bangsamoro; Engr. Yusuff Macalangcom, who is the president of the Sta. Lucia Muslim Traders Association; Atty. Rex Panumpang, who is the chairman of the Council of Elders of the Greenhills Muslim Traders Association; and Archie Villamater.

Happy birthday to our beloved daughter Shaneley. She celebrat-ed her natal day on Janu-ary 23 at Cuyab Resort in Pansol, Calamba City, Laguna. Shukran to all of you!

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THE end, as well as the beginning, of Mus-lim rebels in Southern Mindanao is courtesy of Philippine presidents.

This may sound irra-tional, but it is true.

Former Scout Rang-er Commanding Gen-eral Danilo Lim (ret.) unveils this fact.

In my personal talk with Lim, he reveals that the existence of Muslim rebels – the Moro Na-tional Liberation Front and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front – had long been concluded if not for the blessing of the country’s former presidents, Corazon “Cory” Aquino and Glo-ria Macapagal-Arroyo, and now by President Noynoy Aquino who opens the door of peace for our Muslim brothers.

Lim, who had served the Armed Forces of the Philippines and for decades had fought the Muslim rebels, recalled his fierce battles in Min-danao that powdered camps and trails.

Muslim combatants, in heavy bombardments that happened twice during the regimes of former presidents Fer-dinand Marcos and Jo-seph Estrada, were sent to nowhere like rats, hiding from their hunt-

ers in tanks and in full-battle gears. It was the end of MNLF and MILF.

But, alas, the tide slowed back following the power grabs that happened twice: Marcos to Cory and Estrada to Arroyo.

In recalling his youth at warfront, Lim credited Marcos for the victory of government forces against Muslim rebels in Mindanao.

The rebels were left with no place to hide, and their leaders were forced to abandon their folds. Lim was convinced that it was the end of rebellion in Mindanao. But the unex-pected turn of event sent soldiers to a weary march back home for Marcos had lost his grip of power and Cory sat on the throne.

Cory ordered the coun-try’s soldiers to abandon the territories of Muslim rebels and honor the wis-dom of peace.

Cory negotiated with the remaining leaders of Mulim rebels, like Nur Misuari of the MNLF who was later appointed as governor of the Autono-mous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Probably, with the pur-pose of empowering her presidency by forming armed alliances, Aquino welcomed the idea of res-urrecting the Muslim rebel groups. She caused the

withdrawal of government troops from the battlefield and the former strongholds of rebels were returned to them.

Unconclusively, the armed alliances of Aquino with the rebels triggered the unexpected birth of the Reform the Armed Forc-es Movement or RAM, a group of soldiers that launched series of coup d’ etat in late ‘80s. RAM lead-ership was credited to for-mer Army colonel and now Senator Gringo Honasan but Lim belies this credit.

Admitting that he was one of the top honchos of RAM, Lim dislodges Ho-nasan, saying that his for-mer comrade was never in the forefront of the upris-ing against the administra-tion of Cory.

Dismayed by the armed revolt of RAM, Lim spearheaded the group, the Young Officers Union or YOU, that sought reform in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) under the reign of Cory. But their cause also fell on deaf ears. They failed.

When the term of Aqui-no expired, former presi-dent Fidel Ramos held the power.

Ramos harnessed the alliances started by Cory, and worst, he allegedly backed the armed band of hooligans, the dreaded Abu Sayyaf.

As confessed by former senator Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel Jr., “the Abu Sayyaf partisans were giv-en military intelligence ser-vices IDs, safehouses, safe-conduct passes, firearms, cell phones and various sorts of financial support.”

His informant Edwin Angeles, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan, told him that the Abu Sayy-af was responsible for the razing down of the town of Ipil in then Zamboanga del Sur (now within the new province of Zamboanga Sibugay) in early 1995. The Abu Sayyaf raiders were reportedly provided with military vehicles, mortars and assorted fire-arms.

Ramos was president from 1992 to 1998.

Marites D. Vitug and Glenda M. Gloria named three military and police officers as coddlers or han-dlers of the Abu Sayyaf in their book, Under the Crescent Moon: Rebel-lion in Mindanao. One was commanding general of the Marines at that time, Brig. Gen. Guillermo Ruiz; the other two were former Chief Supts. Leandro Men-doza and Rodolfo Men-doza.

Ramos finished his term and Estrada reigned.

Estrada refused to fol-low the path of Cory and Ramos.

There were reports that an international ter-rorist group al-Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden had extended logistic support to Islamic Extremist ASG. Al-Qaeda also reportedly trained ASG men in mak-ing bombs.

Estrada, believing that Muslim rebels had no use to his administration for they had pledged loyalty to the past administrations, ordered heavy bombard-ment of their strongholds

until Camp Abubakar fell under the control of gov-ernment forces.

Camp Abubakar is a 32,000-hectare land inhab-ited by some 5,000 MILF armed men.

When the war end-ed, Estrada and soldiers roasted pigs in celebration of victory inside Camp Abubakar.

The Muslims con-demned Estrada and the soldiers for allegedly eat-ing “lechon baboy” inside the mosque, an act of des-ecrating a holy place.

However, Lim belies such insinuation, saying that Estrada and govern-ment troops ate in an open field in Camp Abubakar.

It was the end of rebel groups in Mindanao. But, alas, Estrada was removed from power and Arroyo took the command.

Arroyo, like Aquino, turned the tide. She talked with Muslim leaders and ordered government troops to withdraw from the be-sieged rebel camps.

Once more, the rebel groups reigned in Mindan-ao, and it seemed nothing happened despite the sweat and blood that watered the land of wars, Southern Mindanao.

After Arroyo, President Noynoy Aquino lives with the dream of his mother.

Now, PNoy is stretch-

ing a table for peace ne-gotiation in Mindanao: A never-ending negotiation since time immemorial.

I agree with General Lim that the president can make and unmake peace.

The war was won twice in Mindanao, but twice the war was un-folded by former women presidents, and now courtesy of the son of former president.

We feel the grief of Gen. Lim for he, too, shed blood twice in Mindanao during the wars. And the marks of bullets can never be re-moved from the color of his skin.

We are not against peace negotiations for peace shall be achieved not by the barrels of guns. But peace talks were proven unssuc-cesful since the time of Dr. Jose Rizal when he fought with tongue and letters of his writings.

Peace talks, as proved by history, are failed ex-periments. However, it is our hope that with the sincerity of P-Noy, war can be contained by the tongue of his mouth.

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The eternalVirgo ghostof Rejoice

By OMAY E. RENTA

IS it possible for Virgo ghost to give justice to anyone born under its sun sign? Or, can Virgo ghost stripe a hint in solving a puzzle by unfold-ing the missing link like in the mysterious death of

Rejoice Rivera, born on August 29, 1984 under the planet Venus and sun sign Virgo, a beautiful virgin harvest goddess?

Accordingly, the Virgo ghost is undying in giving hint to locate the missing links or things to satisfy and justify the end. Further, according to Sumerian my-thology, the beauty of Virgo is a gift of Venus or Venus herself, the greek goddess of beauty, passion, love and sexuality. Venus means “she who shows the way to the stars,” or, to the light, or, to enlightenment.

If the ways of Virgo ghost and of Venus are to be given weight, then, the myth speaks all truth in real life, for the mysterious death of Rejoice is unfolding, little by little.

The Virgo ghost might have moved in mysterious ways until after the discovery of the charred bodies of Venson Evangelista, Emerson Lozano and the latter’s driver Ernani Sensil.

Lozano and Sensil disappeared on January 12 in Quezon City after meeting the prospect buyer of his van, and their corpses were found in Tarlac.

Evangelista disappeared in Quezon City on January 13 during a road test of his Land Cruiser. His remains were found in Nueva Ecija.

Their untimely deaths are now weighed as waves of heinous crimes that commenced from the death of Rejoice.

Their untimely deaths sparked a big bang to an unimaginable proportion, to the extent of unearthing the secrets of the December 29, 2010 crime which were buried with Rejoice in her grave.

Yes, the way to the stars, to the light, to enlighten-ment is at hand as witness Alfred Mendiola went to the forefront, linking Raymond Dominguez, leader of Dominguez Carnap Gang, to the nonsense killings of innocent humans.

Mendiola admitted that he has knowledge of the plan against Rejoice, of how she will be fetched, how and where she will be killed, and where her body will be dumped.

Dominguez denied having a hand in the killings as he expressed alarm after his name was linked to Rejoice’s murder.

reason, she junked him.As theorized, the ego of Dominguez has been deeply

scratched, and he lost face to his friends and com-rades. For the man of pride and money, his patience ran low.

He tried to court Rejoice to win her once more. But the answer angered him more.

For the nth time, he begged for the lost love until the night of December 28, 2010, the night Rejoice was last seen alive.

As shared by Nieves Santos, the mother of Rejoice, on that fateful night, Rejoice told her that somebody sent a text message wanting to see her. She mentioned the name Raymond, the given name of Dominguez.

She added that Raymond will fetch her at her house in Malolos, Bulacan.

That night, Rejoice left home in peace, and the fol-lowing day her lifeless body with two bullets in the head was found on the shoulder of NLEX-Tabang Exit in Bocaue, Bulacan.

Probably guided by the goddess, Nieves recalled Re-joice’s stories on Raymond’s habit of pumping bullets at the speed limit signage near Tabang Exit.

The PNP-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group operatives visited the said place and they dis-covered two empty shells of a 9mm.

Their examination of the empty shells uncovered close similarities with the bullets extracted from the corpse of Lozano, Emil and Evangelista.

The authorities also visited the condominium unit of Rejoice in Bago-Bantay, Quezon City. They recov-ered receipts and a t-shirt believed owned by Domin-guez.

The name of Dominguez tops the list of the suspects linked to the killings that haunted Central Luzon. He began to fear for his life. For safety, he turned himself in to Bulacan police.

Dominguez faces the charges for the Evangelista carjack-slay and is detained at the Philippine Nation-al Police Custody Center in Camp Crame.

The case of Rejoice is not yet closed, but the guid-ance of Virgo ghost and of Venus to the investigation of the tragedy will eventually clear the way for the delivery of justice for her to finally rest in peace.

For his de-nial, Dominguez remains innocent until proven guilty of the crimes.

What could possibly indict Dominguez to the killing of Rejoice?

First, Domin-guez is a former lover of Rejoice.

Second, he is the last person seen with Rejoice hours before the discovery of her remains at 3:35am on the shoulder of North Luzon Expressway (NLEX)-Tabang Exit in Bocaue, Bulacan.

However, Cen-tral Luzon Re-gional Director Allan Purisima said these are not strong evi-dence that could pin Dominguez in the murder of Rejoice Rivera.

Purisima might be right, but the simple fact that Domin-guez is a former boyfriend of Rejoice is to be meditated. The same also with the fact that for still unknown

Rejoice photo in happier times.

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AFFIDAVIT OF SELF-ADJUDICATION (EXTRAJU-DICIAL SETTLEMENT OF THE ESTATE OF SUSANA ANDRES COLLADO) – Being the sole heir of Susana Andres Collado of No. 2 Mt. Everest St., Filinvest I, Batasan Hills, Quezon City, CASIMIRA ANDRES COL-LADO PASCUAL adjudicated unto herself the personal property of the Estate of SUSANA ANDRES COLLADO consisting in all the amount deposited in the Foreign Currency Deposit at Metrobank under Bank Account No. 032-2-03200261-1. Notarized under the notarial registry of Notary Public Dervin V. Castro as the Notary Public for Manila, specifically Document No. 294, Page No. 155, Book No. 2, whose acknowledgment is regis-tered under the same notarial book as Document No. 295, Page No. 155, Book No. 2, all dated December 31, 2010. (This is the publication for this issue of January 17, 2011, Monday, the third day of issue of this weekly newsmagazine.)

QCDD Director for Ad-ministration Senior Supt. Benjamin Magalong to provide colored pictures of policemen assigned at its DAID-SOTF.

Pasay SIDM looked for witnesses and they found a certain Celso Di-manlig, who positively identified the picture of Police Officer 2 Edmund Faculdar as the one who shot Apolinario and Ku-mar.

Dimanlig further said that he heard Faculdar saying: “Go na tayo. Go na tayo!”

Pasay SIDM cops also found another wit-ness Jackielyn Valenzu-ela Casabuena, a minor of 14 years old.

Jackielyn positively identified Faycho from the pictures as the one who also shot Kumar and

Report and Coordination Form signed on behalf of Magalong. An examina-tion of these documents showed that these were signed by somebody else as “for Magalong.”

When queried, Fay-cho denied and insisted he did not join the opera-tion. This denial was not believed by the SIDM cops because aside from the positive identifica-tion by two witnesses, Apolinario and the mi-nor girl, the implement-ing rules and regulation of the PNP-Operating Procedure dictates that a commissioned officer must be present in field operations, like the one they tried to coordinate with the Pasay Police Of-fice and its community precinct No. 11 on De-cember 20.

printed name of Mag-along, the Task Group Commander of QCPD’s DAID-SOTG, approving the coordination.

Until this time, prob-ers had already estab-lished a very strong case that Faycho and his men are probably guilty for the crimes of frustrated murder and direct assault committed against Apoli-nario, attempted kidnap-ping with homicide com-mitted against Kumar, carnapping (with force and intimidation) for the taking of the Mazda van of Ngie, and two counts of murder for the killing of Andy Ngie and Ret.

Motive behind the crimes

Further investigation of SIDM probers led to the motive behind the crimes.

Kumar divulged to them that while he was running away from the crime scene, he saw his fellow Indian he iden-tified as Gurdarshan Singh, who is also known as Geedee Singh.

Kumar said that Geedee Singh was sit-ting inside the sedan car where he saw Faycho sit-ting.

He said he also found other persons inside the vehicle and he identified them as Saudagar Singh, Deepak Kumar and Baldev Singh Brar.

With this, Kumar is fully convinced that the incident was perpetrated by the group of Singh in tandem with the cops led by Faycho.

He said that the group of Geedee Singh has been notorious for robbery by extortion, death threats, and murders committed against Indian nationals in the Philippines.

Kumar disclosed that Singh was kicked out by the board of directors from the vice presidency of Khalsadiwan Indian Sect after he was found guilty of robbery by extortion.

Kumar is convinced that Singh wanted him dead for him to control the flow of the huge fund of the organization and to hold the Indian com-munity by the neck.

Pasay cop’sbravery ledto Indianmafia

Ngie, in a quest for justice for the death of his son Andy, inquired from the manager of BPI Family Bank if any withdrawal was made on his son’s ATM account.

The bank informed Ching that withdraw-als were made in the amounts of P5,000 and P2,000, at 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of December 21, 2010 at an ATM booth on McArthur Highway in Urdaneta, Pangasinan.

Thus, this led to the bank to provide a vid-eo recording of a man withdrawing P5,000 and P2,000 from the account of Ngie.

Later, the image of the man who withdrew the money was identi-fied as Charles Philip Pineda Lou, who was also known as “Bobon,”

Kumar also disclosed that the group of Singh attempted to kill him on March 13, 2006 in an incident that occurred at 11:30 p.m. in Makati City. This incident re-mained unsolved.

As such, the Pasay Police SIDM and Cuaton recommended the filing of cases against the fol-lowing: Chief Insp. Fay-cho, PO2 Faculdar, PO1 Zapata, Lou, Gurdanshan Singh, Saudagar Singh, Deepak Kumar, and Brar for attempted kidnapping with frustrated homicide, direct assault and frus-trated murder, carnap-ping, and two counts of murder.

Multi-billion-peso donations

The smokescreened police operation was perceived to have been financed by an Indian syndicate with the pur-pose of ending the reign of Kumar as president of Khalsa Diwan Indian Sect and for the appoint-ment of a new leader al-lied with the syndicate for it to be able to dictate the flow of funds into the religious group.

The donations are said to be amounting by the hundreds of millions of dollars from the Unit-ed States.

These donations are done bank to bank. These donations are free of tax and not covered by the Money Laundering Law because these are given as foreign aids for proj-ects in the country.

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an NBI asset. Queried, Bobon dis-

closed that it was his cousin PO1 Mark Ed-ward Zapata who asked him to withdraw.

Bobon added that he was also earlier asked by Zapata to look for a buyer of white Mazda Friendee van and a Hon-da CRV SUV.

Until here, along with the positive identification of Faycho by Apolinario, the theory of SIDM was strengthened that it was QCPD, DAID-SOTG op-eratives who committed the crimes of kidnapping.

Pasay police request-ed the NCRPO to provide personal data sheets of all QCPD-DAID-SOTG operatives, leading

Apolinario.Then calls to Pasay

Police led to the discov-ery of the burnt bodies of Andy Ngie and Ret, in Pangasinan and Bataan, respectively.

At this point, the SIDM detectives be-lieved that the attempt to kidnap or kill Kumar had the “blessing” of rank-ing government officials, pointing at law enforce-ment agencies. They reasoned out that the identified PNP members and Bobon, an NBI asset, will not stage the evil act without the “backing.”

The SIDM detectives also noted the discrepan-cies of the operation, par-ticularly the authentic-ity of the Pre-Operations

The SIDM detectives also did not believe Fay-cho’s claim that he dis-patched 11 operatives in 11 vehicles because this would mean that one po-liceman was riding on one vehicle at one time. This, they said, is not normal in any surveillance or test-buy operation. What is normal is, the probers said, two or three police-men per vehicle for the purpose of extending aid to each other in any un-toward incident.

In an apparent attempt to legalize his team’s op-eration, Faycho’s sig-nature was seen on the Coordination Form dated December 20, 2010. The same signature is seen as the one signing over the

The 6 QCPD cops who were implicated in the botched kidnapping of an Indian national.

The would-be kidnapping victim, Manjinder “James” Kumar.

Projects funded by foreign governments and groups are already a nor-mal practice in the Philip-pines. Some funds are di-rected to the national and local government units while others are through foundations and private religious organizations.

When cleared by the Philippine banks, these donations are withdrawn from the banks to finance the project or to divert the funds for other proj-ects to serve a specific purpose or cause.

The leaders of the group where the funds flow into will receive their corresponding per-centage of the total dona-tion while the remaining funds shall be allocated for specific purposes or causes, legal or illegal.

In some donation trans-actions, the percentages are a pre-arranged deal.

This practice is re-ported to have been ad-opted by Osama Bin

Laden, the known leader of an international ter-rorist group al Qaeda, to finance the training and operations of terror-ist groups in the country, like the Abu Sayyaf in Southern Mindanao.

Kumar believed that money is the root of the crime against him. He disclosed that an extor-tion racket of the group of Gurdarshan Singh alias Geedee Singh may have been too shallow when compared to dona-tions into his organiza-tion.

Khalsadiwan Indian Sect is no different from other local and foreign religious groups in the country that exist on for-eign donations.

However, the heinous crimes committed by the police officers in ca-hoots with Indian nation-als sent a wrong signal: Something is cooking behind Khalsa Diwan In-dian Sect.

8 Vol. II No. 32 Jan. 17-23, 2011

Team Azkals with their new German coach, Hans Michael Weiss.

PHILIPPINE Pres-ident Benigno Aquino III signi-fied his intention to watch the Phil-

ippine football team called “Azkals” play against Mongolia in the first leg of the Asian Football Con-federation Challenge Cup to be held at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod City on February 9.

Proponents across the nation are gearing up for this much-anticipated matchup. Social network websites like Facebook, Twitter and other com-munity forums are al-ready overloaded with an-nouncements to make the 15,000-seater stadium full.

As outlined by a fan site referred to as “Phil-ippine National Football Team,” it encourages all supporters to don white

By RONALDO B. HERICO

shirt on game days while team manager Dan Palami “is requesting everyone to come up with a demo vid-eo of Bamboo’s “Noypi” chant for the Azkals home game.”

Thanks partly to their amazing semifinal stint in the recently-concluded 2010 Asian Football Fed-eration (AFF) Suzuki Cup. It had been a marvelous experience for the Philip-pine Azkals.

The national team con-quered powerhouse and defending champion Viet-nam in a spectacular 2-0 upset in Laos. The Azkals’ perseverance was seen in front of 40, 000 Vietnam-ese spectators at the My Dinh National Stadium last month. The first time the Philippines conquered Vietnam in more than 20 years.

The Azkals went on to play Indonesia on a home-and-away format. Howev-

er, the two legs of the semifinal tie were played in Indonesia because the AFF thumbed down the qual-ity of Philippine football facili-ties.

The match was marred by cards being thrown at the Phil-ippine side. Midfielder Chris Greatwich received a red card after colliding with Indone-sian goalkeeper Markus and three other players getting yellow cards for fouls.

Uruguay-born Christian Gonzales scored the goals in the two games that made the more than 80, 000 Indonesian supporters, including President

SusiloBambangYudhoyono, his wife, and mili-

tary generals

Simon McMenemy, who was credited for catapult-ing the Azkals into fame when they scored a 2-0 win over defending cham-pion Vietnam in Laos. McNemeny’s contract with the team expired last December.

Many believe that the Azkals will cruise hand-ily past Mongolia in the AFC Challenge Cup next month, but Weiss said the match will not be as easy as everyone might expect from his team. He is not taking any chances by as-sembling a team consist-ing of the best local along with Fil-foreign players.

“I’m hoping for a convincing victory but there is an opponent on the other side of the pitch

and they are also seri-ously preparing for the match,” Weiss said of the Mongolians who, reports said, are train-

ing in Guangzhou, Chi-na in preparation for this match.

Weiss is injecting a more attacking style of play and also focusing his training on conditioning, an approach welcomed by some of his players.

Weiss said it will take time for the Azkals to change their system from defensive to attacking.

“I think he brings a different dimension to our team, which focuses more on conditioning and more attacking football,” skip-per Ali Borromeo said.

“On paper, we are pretty strong. Everyone is in high spirits. ”

“We are adapting to his methods,” midfielder Simon Greatwich said. “He carries his (training) sessions well. ”

The Mongolians

would appear to be patsies with their 182 ranking, but Weiss knows only too well that underestimating the enemy could cost his team.

Unconditional support

It all started with a vision of helping the na-tional team and basically to make the ultimate sac-rifice. He’s made a tre-mendous investment on the team. But more than financial, he invested time and effort because he truly wanted to see the country succeed in the sport.

“I had to put my mon-ey where my mouth is,” says the Philippine Az-kals team manager Dan Palami.

Palami was the force behind the Leyte Foot-ball Association and has helped with the develop-ment of the sport in the region.

When he decided to take the initiative to man-age and financially sup-port the national team, he did it his way without in-terference. “Maybe they didn’t interfere because they didn’t want me to ask for help. What I did was ask them what they did, so I’d know what not to do”.

“This is my first time to handle the RP team,” he admits. But his experi-ence in the corporate en-vironment has helped his approach towards the Az-kals and how they should be treated on and off the pitch.

“Before, the team would be put together and prepare a month before a tournament”, but knowing that hard work and prepa-ration is the secret to any team’s success, Palami

changed the culture radi-cally.

“We brought in a coach from the UK who could put the proper train-ing the team needed. We do have a lot of Class A coaches around here but since we don’t really have a competitive league, we figured we needed some-one who had experience. Des Bulfin did a tremen-dous job and he under-stood what we needed to do to be competitive in South East Asia.” Unfor-tunately though, Bulfin had to leave so Palami hired the young and dy-namic Simon McMenemy to take over.

Bulfin actually laid out the picture on what they needed to improve on to form a competitive team. He put emphasis on de-fense and capitalized on counter attacks. “When McMenemy came, he complimented that and in-fused possession football in the midfield to maxi-mize the skilled European players we have,” Palami stated.

The road to the2014 World Cup

The future is bright for Philippine football. Still in the infant stage though, the Azkals has managed to take the sport to greater heights.

The Azkals opens their campaign next month when they clash with Mongolia in a home-and-away tie in the Asian Football Confederation Challenge Cup qualifier.

The home game will be held at the Panaad Stadium in Bacolod on Feb. 9. But the Philip-pine Football Federation

is also pushing to have the away game at Panaad be-cause of the cold weather in Mongolia.

In June, the Philippine Azkals will see action in the qualifying tournament for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil which the country is joining for the first time in more than a decade.

The team will then play in the Southeast Asian Games in Indonesia in November. The SEA Games is an Under-23 event and only six play-ers from the senior team, including goalkeeper Neil Etheridge and Jason de Jong, will be eligible for the tournament.

In between, the team hopes to invite teams from other countries for friend-ly games in order to hone their skills further which could help them improve their FIFA ranking.

Given little chance because of their poor results in the past, the Azkals emerged as the surprise package of the Asean Football Federa-tion Suzuki Cup, reach-ing the semifinals where they eventually bowed to Indonesia.

A stunning 2-0 victory over Vietnam and draws with fancied squads Sin-gapore and Myanmar propelled the Filipinos to the semifinals for the first time in the tournament’s 14-year history.

“It was a culmination of a very nice run for us. We never expected to reach the semifinals and credit goes to the players for playing their hearts out,” said Palami.

The campaign was a reflection of the Filipino spirit of never backing down even at great odds.

scream in jubilation.The Azkals may have

lost the match with the In-dons but they earned the admiration of the football world.

New coach, new system

The new coach, Ger-man coach Hanz Michael Weiss, has been said to be a welcome boost as he picked off from where former coach McMenemy left off.

Weiss, a former Euro-pean player and a certified coach, wanted to trans-form the Azkals into an attacking team and veer away from the defensive mode they played during the Suzuki Cup.

Weiss knows his repu-tation is at stake when he took over the coaching chores from England’s

Dan Palami, the man behind Philippine Azkals.

‘AZKALS’ ARE NOWATTACK DOGS!