EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING MUST STOP by Cecille G. Guan (11-STEM-B) We, human, are seeking for a change and progress of our country. Change is all we wanted right now but we are not seeking for a desperate and brutal change, a change that stepped our human rights, a change that blocked one’s good future and a change that suddenly kills people. Just like what Tom Robbins says “There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.” On that ground, Extrajudicial killing must stop! Extrajudicial killing is the force killing of a person without the sanction of any judicial proceeding or any legal process, then I should ask this crucial question to every Filipino, does human rights still practice well in this country? The mission of the government is to maintain the peace of our land but why there’s to kill someone’s life, why is it necessary to do bad deeds just to keep the result right? What ‘s the sense of peace land if the framework were full of killings of criminals. According to World Report 2017, police statistics attribute an additional 3,001 killings of alleged drug dealers and drug users to unknown vigilantes from July 1 to September 4. Criminals are also humans, they have their rights, they have the rights to live in this world. They have the chance to change but suddenly that chance was taken so they are. Where’s the human rights in there? They didn’t even speak for themselves. They didn’t have the chance to fight! Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David says, “They are human beings; their addiction to drugs is a disease, a serious disease. What they need are not bullets but rehabilitation. For God’s sake, stop the killings, start the healing!” Killing is not the answer. Killing is for inhuman. Killing is not our deeds as son of God. The bible says, ‘You shall not murder’, but things go wrong on our beloved land. People kill people. Human versus human. Humanity is on war. Now, we didn’t look up at them as good leader, instead, we looked at them as monster of the society. Our people are now afraid of authorities rather than they seek for help from them. We are afraid because what if we became the topic of the news, like ‘an innocent boy killed because he was a drug user’ or ‘a cold body of a girl with a placard, ‘wag tularan, drug pusher ako’, on her neck lying was found dead, lying on the sidewalk’. They killed people even the innocent without a word and shoot it without thinking twice. Last month, I heard a news about an innocent 17-yearold student, Kian delo Santos killed by the policemen due to presumably a drug user. I can tell extrajudicial killing is involved and cruelty is in humanity. I, as a 16-year-old girl with a simple life, could be a victim. I pray everyday for my safety when I am outside my house, I don’t know my luck today or tomorrow but I only knew, cruelty is proud existing around me. Cruelty counts human. I. You. They. We could be a victim of this contagious cruelty. I mourned for our human rights, the only thing that our ancestors fight for is starting to vanish. What ‘s the essence of socalled peace land if we, humans, are standing by in the corner, seeing people suffering from one’s hand until the blood was empty and silence is the food? Yes! We could have a peace land someday, a peace land without citizens but monsters were left. So, stand up, left your hide out and speak for yourself, speak up for ourselves. We didn’t need a brutal change; we need a good leader. Bullet is not the answer, bullet is only for the sins, but not for the sinners. On that ground, Extrajudicial killings must stop! Start the healing.
