A Very Twisted Kind of Greed and Lust For Money
The title is inspired by a comment on this post discussing the abductions that have become rampant all over the Philippines’ largest island (Luzon) in the past weeks. My family told me that the broadcast was sent over the local station in our province 2 weeks ago, but it wasn’t until tonight that the magnitude of these seemingly ‘isolated’ kid abductions hit me.
Someone from my area of residence lost her child to this abductors. They took some of his organs and left him dead on a deserted location with a note saying sorry and a wad of cash (twenty thousand pesos or 500 USD) on the dead kid’s stomach.
Please, if you’re Filipino, let the world know how Filipino children are losing their lives to some international syndicate operating to collect organs from here and selling them abroad. Missing kids, one or ten at a time, wouldn’t matter much to some, but their parents are people like us who love their children. Fearing the worst, and grieving.
If I have to seal my house now, I will, but I am too scared to go out to buy mortar.
… and I can’t sleep either.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:36 am
this is a terrible situation, and yet western media still puts dog and pony shows on it’s front pages.. disgracefully…
March 11th, 2008 at 3:24 am
and local news our side still reports politicians slinging mud at each other.
March 11th, 2008 at 11:15 am
now, this is sickeningly disgusting! yes, i also received a YM message telling me the plate number of a white van that is allegedly used for these abductions. VMM 507.
I don’t know if this is true but it won’t hurt to pass it around there in the Philippines.
I hope and pray these perpetrators will get caught soon.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
perhaps the authorities see it as isolated kidnapping cases. after all, 5-10 kids per province doesnt seem enough to incite a more driven approach… 10 kids per province, 10 families waiting for a ransom note that may never come.