Justice for Fabio, Renren, for our Aetas, for all!

In Caloocan, 46-year-old Fabio Norberte Jr. was stabbed multiple times. In Carmona, Cavite, 35-year-old Ren Ren de Laviga was shot several times.

Both never imagined that fatal ride would be their last. Both had worked for their family.

Fabio especially offered his work for his three-year old boy, Anghel. Because his mother had already died, Fabio remained Anghel’s pillar, his provider, his protector.

That fateful night, despite multiple stabs, Fabio tried to get up and stay alive, desperately wanting to return home to his son, reportedly with autism.

Sadly, Fabio died in the hospital.

Was Fabio able to alert his rescuers about his three-year old boy? Did Fabio leave his last-minute requests for his autistic son to be cared for in his absence?

Why did the killer not just take his motorcycle and leave Fabio alive?

Is human life so cheap and dispensable?

Roy Canatuan Escalon, in his FB post, poignantly captures the tragic last trip, “Huling Biyahe” of these motorbike riders –

“Ako ay namamasada lang naman. Pero bakit ba naman ganyan. Ang bariyang kikitain sa pamilya nakalaan.

“Hindi ka magbanat ng buto, para bulsa'y magkalaman. Tapos ang aking tagiliran ang iyong binutasan.

“Ngayon ang biyahe ko na ay patungo na sa langit. Sino na ang aagapay sa anak ko na maliit?

“Hindi ka man lang nakonsensya, at milyong beses mong inisip.

“Ang destinasyong makaahon sa hirap, ay naglaho na lang sa panaginip.”

In his blog, JLB shared – the motorbike riders are “fathers/mothers/sons/daughters/providers/workers carrying the weight of entire families behind their helmets. They are the heroes of the night. They work while the city sleeps, move through dark roads so other people can arrive safely. They face dangers that passengers may never see.”

Going viral is this heartfelt plea of a motorbike rider who wrote this message in his helmet - “Buntis ang asawa ko. Huwag niyo po ako sanang saktan (My wife is pregnant. Please don’t hurt me).”

JUSTICE FOR FABIO!

JUSTICE FOR RENREN as well!

PROTECTION for all motorbike riders, for all workers, for all our people as well!

And CARE and WELFARE for their families left behind, especially the children and the vulnerable.

As we cry for justice for these recent victims and their families, we also join all others who have yet to see justice rendered for the loss of their loved ones.

JUSTICE FOR KINGSTON RALPH CHENG! JUSTICE FOR THE BINALIW VICTIMS and their families!

We also cry for JUSTICE FOR THE AETAS whose ancestral land has been dubbed by an I-Witness report of Kara David as “Ibinasurang Paraiso.”

These statements of Subic municipal engineer Marian del Castillo: “During that time po, ang gusto lang namin maitapon ang mga napakadaming basura. Immediate solution lang ito, hindi ito magtatagal.

“Isolated po yung area eh, wala pong nakatira doon. Gubat po yung area kaya pansamantala po doon namin naisip ilagay.”

From Subic MENRO OIC Mary Grace Molina – “Hindi naman alam na may community doon sa area.”

To the Aetas, their ancestral land is a territory that serves not only as their home and source of sustenance, but as a priceless inheritance to be preserved for future generations.

“Naaawa din po ako sa lugar na bakit ginanaito po nila. Masakit po sa damdamin po, ma'am. Napakasakit po,” according to Erlinda, an Aeta, when interviewed.

From another interviewed Aeta, Marites Gonzales, “yan nga po ang sabi nga po, papagandahin dun.”

Dumping operations (mostly of medical waste during the pandemic) were reported to have started in 2019, “the open dumpsite discovered by DENR in January 2022, suspended in October 2025, formally closed this past March due to protests from local indigenous groups, but the accumulated waste has yet to be fully cleared up.”

Residents are also facing a water shortage due to garbage’s toxic leachate contamination of water sources.