Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo's facile insinuation that President Duterte might impose martial law to curb the violence in Negros Island is irresponsible and simplistic, given the gravity of what is at stake and the complexity of the situation of land ownership.
Has no longer the ineffectual imposition of martial legislation in Marawi, and later within the entire of Mindanao, taught us some thing? seen from a historic point of view, the fiasco of Marcos' use of martial legislation should even have served as a last lesson to all formidable leaders harboring any idea of despotism. It didn't bring peace and order. What it introduced the citizenry become the wholesale violation of lives and human rights, the loss of life of innocents and, finally, chaos.
Martial legislations is no solution to the growing lawlessness in Negros, a whole lot much less a remedy-eager about the distinctive complications inherent in democratic governance. expanding and increasing militia presence within the island will best occasion more violence and bloodshed among each soldiers and civilians.
What Negros needs urgently is poverty alleviation. hunger does not wait. in the future, the productive implementation of a real land reform program is what's referred to as for, if this nation is to circulate forward.
WILFREDO T. DULAY, MDJ
Convenor, non secular Discernment community
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