Violence is not the answer

In a modern and civilized society, the use of violence is shunned. Violence occupies the realm of all that is evil, vicious and loathsome.

But violence has been the path chosen by our local communists. They live and nurtured themselves in violence. The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has urged all units of its armed wing the New People’s Army (NPA) to launch more frequent attacks against Indigenous People and government troops. They exhibited this when they killed Lumad leader Hawudon Jomar Bucales and Private First Class Ariel Guinsod Maca, both in Surigao del Sur.

The NPA has espoused violence for so long and that is no longer acceptable in the present times. The use of violence cannot solve any country’s problems, much more when it involves killings, ambushes and attacks towards civilians and those in authority.

The NPAs are living in obsolete times when barbarity was the order of the day. Their call for more attacks should be answered with calls to “No to armed struggle,” a call by the majority of peace-loving Filipinos. – Kareen Asistio, Majayjay, Laguna