A Travesty

A travesty

• Written by  Ninez Cacho-Olivares

Noynoy had the face to claim that “they have done all they could” to protect the lives of the fighters of the sultanate, even when, for some three weeks running, he again transformed himself into the invisible, inept President of the Republic, and did nothing but have his spokesmen and his Interior Secretary Mar Roxas issue threats and more threats against Sultan Kiram and his men in Sabah.
And all Noynoy did to “protect” the lives of the Filipinos in Sabah was to keep on mouthing what Malaysia mouths, which aim is to massacre the Filipino Muslims who are fighting not just for their sultan’s rightful land, but also to get back that land for the Philippine Republic.
Three weeks after the occurrence, Noynoy finally faces the media, then says he has done all he could, when he did nothing in the first few days that stretched into weeks.
What was his ambassador to Malaysia doing at that time, that Noynoy had to get his information and direction from Malaysia?
Why did he not send his Foreign Affairs secretary, Albert del Rosario, weeks ago, to talk to the Malaysian authorities about the problem? Why, after so many Filipino fighters have died, and are reportedly being attacked with bombs by the Malaysian forces, did Del Rosario finally leave to engage in talks with Malaysia and seek permission for their ships to come to the aid of the Filipinos?
Why, if Noynoy and his Interior secretary claim that they did all they could to protect the lives of Filipinos did they constantly threaten the sultan and his fighters with arrest and criminal charges, when they return?
Here is Noynoy telling the fighters to return to the Philippines, saying that theirs is a lost cause, which is no different from saying that the Sabah claim is useless, as the Malaysians are in control in Sabah. Then he threatens them with crime that was committed in the Philippines.
And worse, Noynoy even has the gall to now say that he smells a conspiracy in the Sabah firefighting, claiming there is basis for saying this, as intelligence reports point to this.
That’s a laugh, considering that his intelligence network did not even smell some 200 Sulu fighters going off to Sabah to stake the sultanate and the Philippines’ claim to ownership of Sabah. Hell, Noynoy and his intelligence network didn’t even know just how many fighters were there. And he speaks of intelligence reports pointing to a conspiracy, and obviously pointing to the conspirators as those from the previous administration — with an additional claim that this has something to do to break up the peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Then Noynoy admits that he cannot come up with a conclusion on the conspiracy, as he has no evidence.
If there is no evidence of a conspiracy or the identities of the alleged conspirators, why then does he speak of conspiracies?
Still, that is always the way of inept presidency and a weakling, always refusing to take the blame for the disaster and crises that come their way and hiding himself for weeks when a crisis erupts.
The fact that Noynoy and his boys did nothing about several letters coming from Sultan Kiram III shows that from the start, the intent was never to include the sultan in the peace talks, which is why everything is being granted to the MILF.
This is also the reason Malaysia is the facilitator in the peace talks, and why Kiram is out of the peace talks, because Malaysia was aware of the sultan’s ancestral claim of Sabah and wanted the Sultan out of the talks.
Malaysia is there to protect Malaysian interests, not the Philippines. The MILF also bows to Malaysia and will not have the sultan participating in these peace talks.
Now Noynoy and his aides blame Kiram for placing the peace talks in danger, with Noynoy aides claiming that the Sabah incident may even make Noynoy lose his chance at being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
For Pete’s sake. He feeds Filipinos to the Malaysian wolves and does not care if they get killed by Malaysian forces, and he wants to be known as a man of peace?
A man who sold out a part of the Republic to the Malaysians and now sells out more of Mindanao to the MILF? A leader who didn’t care a whit about the lives of the Filipinos fighting for the Republic’s claim, because he was too much of a weakling and gets his orders from Malaysia?
What a travesty.