This week became a week of grievance when a close friend had been killed in a holdup last saturday (July 24, 2010). She was on her way home at 3 in the morning when 3 unknown men tried to take her belongings. Witnesses said that she struggled to fight but one of the suspects stabbed her using an ice pick (which pierced her lung and allowed blood to drown her lungs). But they weren’t even contended by it, they even stabbed her chest so many times by a knife. According from our close friends, she even tried to chase the robbers, but try as she may be, she went back and tried to reach her home, only a few houses away, to get help. Unfortunately… she didn’t make it.
We were all shocked and grieved for her unjust death. Not only it was so sudden, it was down right despicable… We couldn’t accept the fact that she is gone… forever.
When I went to her wake, my heart fell sick, especially when I looked at her…
Her face was swollen. Not only because she lost 2 liters of blood, but her jaw was also dislocated caused by when one of the robbers punched her in the face. There was a knife cut on her left arm… and some details that are hard to explain.
I couldn’t bear to see her at first, but my anger and hatred to those robbers made me strong enough to look at her. Anyone… would grieve so much if ever they see her. Her face marked with suffering and strunggle. All of this haunted me for days, even in my dreams, I imagine myself in her place when she died and how she died. Its as if my friend tells me that she’s in so much pain and that she wants justice.
Ironic isn’t it…there are so many despicable, evil people out there; free to terrorize, free to hurt and free to kill anyone (even the innocent) to get whar their want… to satisfy their greed or revenge. And yet they’re fearless, confident to lurk in the streets to find someone to slaughter mercilessly. Some even go free without even a rightful verdict… how unfair, how unjust.
Justice fot Jija… We will always pray for you, that you may get the kind of justice you rightfully deserve. Your words and works will be remembered always editor-in-chief… I will always look up to you not only as a dear friend, but a treasured collegue, gifted with wisdom and strenghtened by faith…
