There is always a time for everything.
We waited several years before Gen. Palparan & his cohorts were sent to jail by a Bulacan court for snatching UP students Sherryln Cadapan and Karen Empeno.
We even waited more than three decades for some of the killers and torturers of labor leader Ka Lando Olalia and unionist Ka Leonor Alay-ay to be convicted by an Antipolo court.
Now we waited more than a decade before two army personnel who killed in 2010 Benjamin Bayles, Bayan Muna coordinator and Iglesia Filipina Independiente member, to be convicted by a Negros court. These speak volumes. Yet it is not lost on us that justice will come later even if not sooner.
This is for you, Ben Bayles and Ben Ramos, the latter who was with us to see this through before he himself was killed in 2018.
We have to acknowledge the role our partners in the prosecution played too. This is a clear message and warning to those who think there is immunity for impunity.
But most of all, this is for those still waiting for justice to be served.
Have faith. It will come somehow, sometime.
#Edre U. Olalia
NUPL President
09175113373
For the Private Prosecution
