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Justice for Phillip Pestaño

This was one time when I remarked,”Multuhin ka sana.”

Even if one wants to give Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez the benefit of the doubt, it’s really difficult not to join the call for her ouster with the recent decision of her office to dismiss the murder charges filed by the family of Ensign Phillip Pestaño against Philippine Navy officials.

It didn’t even take into consideration the findings of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights released six days before it finalized its own that said, “It now appears undisputed that the death of the author’s son was a violent one, resulting from homicide.”

Homicide is murder. It’s not suicide as Navy officials claim.

The Ombudsman’s ruling reflects indifference and incompetence. Trabahong tamad. It said that there was no evidence who had killed Pestaño, or if a crime had been committed at all.

They were not sure that a crime had been committed?

This is the story of Phillip as narrated by Fr. James Reuter, S.J: