I’ve not heard much news from my beloved home country lately, but the most shocking mass murders of the Maguindanao massacre has not escaped me. It saddens me to think that this can happen in our country. This must have affected much the concerned families and the government as well. Though this may have occurred in a far-away remote place, still they are a part of us, being one as a Filipino.

The criminals of the heinous crime mercilessly dumped the bodies of their victims in mass graves. It just came to my mind, how much could have been the funeral costs of all of them were they decently buried? Oh, but this was not surely in the minds of the perpetrators.