Rizal Philippines
June 15, 2017
Declaration (proclamation 216)
As this is being written the oral arguments for and against martial law in Mindanao are being exchanged at SC. Maybe a waste of time and people's money This post asks what are more proofs needed to support the decision for such a declaration: The main argument is that it should be limited to Marawi city
But this is war. and now the crisis has spilled over up to Iligan City; destruction is in billions of pesos; hundreds of lives were lost. The Maute has hundreds of combatants at Marawi with P30 million support coming from ISIS through a former Malaysian professor; The militants had even a P50.00 stash in one of the houses.
1. The perpetrators are rumored to have slipped to neighboring provinces As the bomb maker who was caught in CDO; the elder Maute was caught in Davao
2. The evacuees are in Iligan City where there is an impending humanitarian crisis
3. The allies of the militants are all elsewhere in Mindanano: Sulu, Zamboanga Maguindanao
4. The NPA may be taking advantage of the situation to launch attacks.
5. The foreign nationals joining the fray are entering through the porous borders of southern Mindanao like Sarangani and Sulu
6. It now appears that the Marawi war is a tactical alliance among BIFF, Abu Sayyaf, and Maute. (And maybe NPA. Those in the know say that the ASG were in Clarin Bohol to recruit fighters for this event
Again this petition at SC is a great dishonor our fallen soldiers in Marawi While they gave up their lives for our country, the detractors have the gall and guts to imply that their efforts were in vain. The allies of the other militants like the NPA and other armed groups would be the only one who are capable of launching such detraction
The situation then, in 1972 when JPA was allegedly ambushed in Makati, as an excuse to declare martial law is very different from Marawi situation. It is war. Let the honorable objectors to the Martial Law in Mindanao go to Marawi at the provincial capitol to argue against such declaration
I would suppose nakahiyaan na lang nila. The church, VP Robredo and all others even a known leftist lady senator agree that the declaration is justified
