Monday, December 21, 2009
Loving is not just saying "I love you" to the one you love
Ampatuan gone wild!
First of all, I would like to show some gratitude on inquirer.net on posting a map and timeline of the Maguindanao Massacre.
It can also be seen in http://symbianize.com/showthread.php?t=169592
Among those earlier confirmed killed were Buluan Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu’s wife Jenalyn, his sister-in-law and currently Mangudadatu town Vice Mayor Eden, their youngest sister Bai Farina and his cousins Zorayda Bernan, Raida Sapalon and Rowena Ante Mangudadatu.
The retrieval team also found the bullet-riddled bodies of lawyers Connie Brizuela and Cynthia Oquendo, as well as journalists Alejandro “Bong” Reblando of Manila Bulletin, Henry Araneta of DZRH as well as freelancers Marife Montano, Maritess Cablitas, Rey Merescon and Jun Legarta.
But aside from the members of the Mangudadatu family, the two lawyers and the estimated 30 journalists who joined their convoy, Dangane said they recovered the remains of several employees of the National Economic and Development Authority in Region 12, city government of Tacurong in Sultan Kudarat and several other civilians.
“They happened to be there (at the highway) and the suspects also held and later killed them,” the police official said.
Dangane did not initially name the identities of the recovered remains saying they will have to undergo further verification.
He said they have also started Tuesday afternoon the transport of the recovered bodies to Koronadal City in South Cotabato where an autopsy will be conducted by forensic experts.
Around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, the bodies of Jenalyn and Bai Farina arrived at the Allen Memorial Home in Koronadal City for autopsy.
Among those who brought the remains of the three were Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu, Buluan Mayor Ibrahim Mangudadatu and Sultan Kudarat Governor Suharto Mangudadatu.
About a hundred armed men reportedly held and later killed the members of the Mangudadatu family and the two women lawyers and journalists who accompanied the Mangudadatus on the way to the Commission on Elections provincial office in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao to file the certificate of candidacy for Maguindanao governor of Buluan Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu.
The suspects, who were tagged as hired guns of the Ampatuan family, initially stopped the convoy in Barangay Saniag at around 9:00 am and brought them at gunpoint to the vicinity of barangays Salman and Malating, which is about 10 kilometers from the national highway.
A back hoe allegedly owned by the provincial government of Maguindanao was reportedly used in burying some of the victims.
Dangane said they found the abandoned heavy equipment Tuesday morning positioned near the scattered remains of some of the victims and a cliff that appeared to be freshly filled with soil at the vicinity of Sitio Masalay, Barangay Salman in Ampatuan town.
The back hoe reportedly carried the name of the provincial government of Maguindanao and Gov. Andal Ampatuan.
“They could have used (the back hoe) in dumping and burying the bodies of the victims,” said Dangane, who joined the ongoing joint police and military retrieval operations in the area.
Dangane, who earlier served as police director in General Santos City and Sarangani province, said he was still trying to locate some of the missing journalists, who were mostly from the cities of General Santos and Koronadal.
Radio station Bombo Radyo Koronadal reported this afternoon that at least four persons who supposedly survived the carnage were now in the custody of the Vice Mayor Mangudadatu.
But police and army officials in the area said they could not yet verify the report as Vice Mayor Mangudadatu has not reported the matter to them.
The massacre goes far beyond an ordinary clan war. Its perpetrators apparently believe that they are beyond the reach of the law. The murderers operated in broad daylight; the murders were premeditated down to the mass burial of the victims.
The barbaric murders in the Philippines are similar to the genocides in Africa and the ethnic killings in Eastern Europe that caught the attention of the international community.
This was like the worst killings I have ever heard in my lifetime! Women were tortured, abused, mutilated and some said they were raped by the private armies of Ampatuan before actually killing them. Many were shot right through their faces, rendering them virtually unrecognizable. While some women were shot in the genital area. This Devil act of those people behind this murder should be sentence to death. They should suffer also like those innocent people they killed. I hope that the justice will prevail in this case..
Let us all pray for the victim of the massacre and for justice.
The nerd caught our attention!!!!
Oh akala niyo kung sino no?! akala niyo si Clark no! Puwes nagkakamali kayo!
Ako nga pala si "Angelito Martin Ramos"
Nerd daw ako...
hind naman diba!
Pero infairness pogi dba!?
Proud to be DFCAM'ers
Minsan lang mapicturan eh kaya posing na posing talga eh...
pogi no!?
pogi dba?!
grabe talga no?!
oh angal pa!?
maniwala ka na!
pogi yan!
oh tawa ka?!
tsk tsk.. maniwala ka na sav eh...
tsk tsk to talga oh maniwala ka na!
How fear of failure destroys success?
In fact, one of the greatest misfortunes you can meet early in a project is premature—yet inevitably still partial—success. When that happens, the temptation is to fix on what seemed to work so quickly and easily and look no further. Later, maybe, a competitor will come along and continue the exploration process that you aborted, pushing on to find a much better solution that will quickly push your partial one aside.
Cultures of perfection
Too many organizations today have cultures of perfection: a set of organizational beliefs that any failure is unacceptable. Only pure, untainted success will do. To retain your reputation as an achiever, you must reach every goal and never, ever make a mistake that you can’t hide or blame on someone else.
Imagine the stress and terror in an organization like that. The constant covering up of the smallest blemishes. The wild finger-pointing as everyone tries to shift the blame for the inevitable cock-ups and messes onto someone else. The rapid turnover as people rise high, then fall abruptly from grace. The lying, cheating, falsification of data, and hiding of problems—until they become crises that defy being hidden any longer.
Clinging to the past
If some people fail to reach a complete answer because of the lure of some early success, many more fail because of their ego-driven commitment to what worked in the past. You often see this with senior people, especially those who made their names by introducing some critical change years ago. They shy away from further innovation, afraid that this time they might fail, diminishing the luster they try to keep around their names from past triumph. Besides, they reason, the success of something new might even prove that those achievements they made in the past weren’t so great after all. Why take the risk when you can hang on to your reputation by doing nothing?
Such people are so deeply invested in their egos and the glories of their past that they prefer to set aside opportunities for future glory rather than risk even the possibility of failure.
Why high achievers fail
Every strength can become a weakness. Every talent contains an opposite that sometimes makes it into a handicap. Successful people like to win and achieve high standards. This can make them so terrified of failure it ruins their lives. When a positive trait, like achievement, becomes too strong in someone’s life, it’s on the way to becoming a major handicap.
Achievement is a powerful value for many successful people. They’ve built their lives on it. They achieve at everything they do: school, college, sports, the arts, hobbies, work. Each fresh achievement adds to the power of the value in their lives.
Gradually, failure becomes unthinkable. Maybe they’ve never failed yet in anything that they’ve done, so have no experience of rising above it. Failure becomes the supreme nightmare: a frightful horror they must avoid at any cost. The simplest way to do this is never to take a risk. Stick rigidly to what you know you can do. Protect your butt. Work the longest hours. Double and triple check everything. Be the most conscientious and conservative person in the universe.
And if constant hard work, diligence, brutal working schedules, and harrying subordinates won’t ward off the possibility of failing, use every other possible means to to keep it away. Falsify numbers, hide anything negative, conceal errors, avoid customer feedback, constantly shift the blame for errors onto anyone too weak to fight back. The problems with ethical standards in major US corporations has, I believe, more to do with fear of failure among long-term high achievers than any criminal intent. Many of those guys at Enron and Arthur Andersen were supreme high-fliers, basking in the flattery of the media. Failure was an impossible prospect, worth doing just about anything to avoid.