La Bella Zamboanga commemorates ‘MNLF Siege’
SINCE THE September 9, 2013 attack right in the heart of our La Bella Zamboanga by some 500 heavily-armed Moro National Liberation Front members under Nur Misuari, this peace-loving and highly-urbanized City in Mindanao has been placed under continuous heightened alert.
Mayor Maria Isabelle “Beng” Climaco-Salazar
deeply explained in a television interview during the solemn observance of
its 8th year anniversary of
the so-called Zamboanga Siege, that “the alert level of Zamboanga City will
always be heightened because we need to make sure that our security forces are
able to be preventive or proactive. Otherwise, if we lower our guards, or the
alert level, the security forces might be lax or complacent, as well.”
Ergo, our Chief Executive has never watered-down
her continuous tight security policy for our City since that bloody and
treacherous attack staged by the Moro rebels traumatized the whole Zamboanga
populace and caught all its people with their pants down.
She heaped praises for her brave stance and also
lauded the extraordinary efforts shared by the different Greek-lettered
fraternities in our La Bella, as they see to it that their own different
barangays, or villages where they live are more in safe hands now than ever
before since terror struck the City back in those menacing days eight years ago.
The Mayor stressed that her incumbent
administration has never stopped engaging with the police, the military and the
force multipliers, to include the barangay tanods, so that all of them will
exert their utmost efforts at securing the safety and protection of their own
communities.
She was all cognizant of the huge help extended
up to now by all the local fraternities, in so far as security ramp-up in our City,
is concerned. “I cannot mention all of these fraternities, but I know they are
helping in so many ways the people and the communities. They have dialogued
with the police, and have even volunteered to ease the burden of the people by
helping us in securing, and even in coping with the pandemic,” she extolled.
“We have to engage the community, the
fraternities, because they are very important to us in many ways,” the Mayor
underlined further and she profoundly noted that the people in the barangays
would even volunteer themselves in keeping law and order in their respective communities.
Now, let’s see its cons, as critics cried out:
“Whatever happens to our City Government’s much-ballyhooed legal battle vs.
these rogue MNLF fighters under their Chieftain Nur Misuari for grave charges
of alleged rebellion and insurrection?” asked a dismayed folk who claimed as
amongst the victims of Zamboanga Siege.
The appalling turn of events in its case vs. the
offenders of such heinous crimes came when Davao strongman President Rodrigo Duterte
took up the cudgels for and on behalf of Misuari whom he considered as his
personal friend. He even invited Misuari to speak in Malacanang and allowed him
to pour out his heart to express his grievances against the government.
My gosh! How lucky he could be, and even got
tenfold luckier when President Duterte appointed the former rebel chieftain as
his special envoy to the Middle East countries. The President likewise provided
him free shelter in Davao City as his home in Zamboanga City has been kept
under close guarding by the military since becoming the “Most Wanted Person” in
our La Bella Zamboanga, thus declared a persona non-grata, for his supposed
grievous crimes against humanity in the infamous “Zamboanga Siege.
The attack resulted in the loss of over 200
lives and widespread destruction of at least 6 urban barangays which were
flattened to the ground due to intense fighting between the attackers and security
forces during the 21-day street battle.
Question: What’s
the stern warning of God to man about never to pass any judgment on his
fellowmen?
Answer: “Do
not judge others and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as treat
others. The standard you use in judging is the standard by which you will be
judged.” (Matthew 7: 1-2) jayfeliciano2@yahoo.com
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