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At the same time, as someone who's a writer, naintindihan ko,
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the reason nag-vlogger ako is because I know most people don't read, especially sa Pilipinas.
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At mahalang mga libro.
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So, people go to vlogs.
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People go to news.
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They go to news na libre over YouTube.
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And visual ang mga Pilipino.
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Visual not in terms of reading letters on a paper, but visual in terms of, you know,
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they want to see things.
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And para sa akin, mahalaga talaga na magkakaroon tayo ng more interviews and coverage
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dun sa mga sufferings, traumas, yung kwento.
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Kwentong buhay ng mga biktima ng EJK.
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Obviously, hindi yung mga namatay because hindi natin sila makausap,
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but yung mga families sila.
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Mas their families about the background of these people, their history, their humanity.
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Because as I said, and please, do not use the Lord's words in vain, alright?
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I see a lot of people selectively quoting from the Holy Book to say,
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oh, we just have to follow the President.
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No, no, no, don't do that.
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klarong-klarong Biblia, di ba?
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He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination.
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Nasa Proverbs yan.
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And we can go and talk about many, many other verses about the importance of justice.
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From Jesus himself.
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So please, please, don't try to use the Lord's words in vain.
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I'll call you out.
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I'll call you out.
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So on that note, dapat tuloy-tuloy eto.
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And I hope the risks and the effort and the emotions and the talent and the skills and moments and hours and years
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that people like Patricia Meganlista, other reporters, Victoria Tulad, a lot of my colleagues in GMA, in ABS-CBN back in the day,
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all of them, they put into covering the war on drugs.
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Sana hindi lang panonidigong yan.
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Sana tuloy-tuloy eto.
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Sana makover natin eto, guys, in terms of the stories yung mga biktima.
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Please, please, kailangan talaga natin yan.
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Mahalaga talaga yan.
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Dapat marinig na mga taong bayan itong kwento na yan.
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Kaya ako, in particular, I looked at the case of Argentina.
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Because we're not alone.
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Unfortunately, we're not alone in terms of suffering from mass human rights violations, dictatorship.
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But I think we have done a very poor job compared to our counterparts in Latin America and other post-dictatorship countries
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in terms of coming to terms with human rights violations.
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It goes without saying that BBM, in my opinion, has not come clean on the legacy of his father and his family.
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And, well, obviously, in detail, realistic.
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If you want to expect under BBM, there'll be something in terms of his overtones.
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There'll be something in terms of his own family's legacy.
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But maybe he can do something at least with Duterte's legacy.
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Because, obviously, this is also politically beneficial to him for reasons that we don't need to even explain anymore
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because it's quite obvious to everyone what's going on right now.
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So, and not to mention, obviously, itong nangyari under Duterte is, you're talking about tens of thousands in just a span of few years, right?
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Mas marami pang EJK nangyari nung six years na yan kaysa yung, what, 20 years.
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So, this is crazy, guys.
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So, I don't think we can call ourselves a real democracy or even a decent, civilized nation.
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We are a decent, civilized nation, but we have to prove it.
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We have to demonstrate, we have to remind the world that we are indeed what we are, right?
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We are, this is a Christian, God-loving nation.
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So, I think it's important.
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It's important that we remind the world that we're not going to let this slide.
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Now, naintindihan ko na there's fear, there's hesitation, there are broken institutions,
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but let's make sure that the arc of history bends towards some kind of justice here.
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Again, I'm not naive.
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Our history of holding people in power to account is very poor.
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Ilan bang mga kurakot na top officials na nakulong?
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Eh, yung mga na-police type, yung mga na-na-na-na, di ba?
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Yung iba nga, binalik pa sa ano.
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I know, I have no, um, I have no, um, alam niya tong TikTok na to?
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I have no, uh, uh, illusions about the, the, the, the shortcomings, uh, in our political and judicial system.
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And I think the reason why you had digong is precisely because of that broken judicial system we had.
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Am I being censored sa TikTok?
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Um, because ang toko pa digong na, just kidding.
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Um, but you see, if Argentina and other countries who also have had broken,
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broken systems can move in a certain direction, why, why, why shouldn't we do it, di ba?
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So, I, I really, uh, suggest you check the case of Argentina, Eloisio, uh, the, and then the, the, the great movie that they made, uh, uh, recently,
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itong Argentina 1985 about the trials of the former generals and top officials involved.
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Now, one of the key things in, in, in, you see in that movie is that marami na pro-military, pro-hunta na nagre-red tagging na yung mga tipong ubusin, yung mga ganyan.
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Nung nakita nila yung mga pamilya ng mga biktima, nung nakita nila yung mga biktima mismo, nung narinig nila, uh, sa mga biktima mismo, yung mga na-rape, na-torture, uh, then medyo yung iba sa kanila lumambot na, or nag, nag-dalawang isip.
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And some of them even had epiphany and moments of redemption.
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So, napakamahalaga, napakamahalaga na yung mga may platforms, may boses, yung mga media natin also show the side of the victims.
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Hindi lang i-report yung ilang namatay.
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Hindi lang i-report.
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Ito yung nangyari sa ICC.
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Hindi lang i-report anong sinabi ni Digong.
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Hindi lang i-report anong sinabi ni Harry, or yung sinabi ng isang abogado, or yung sinabi ng isang propagandist.
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Dapat, marinig din natin yung boses ng, literally, yung boses ng mga biktima, yung mga pamilya ng mga biktima.
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Kasi ang biktima dito, hindi lang yung na-IJK.
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Ba't yung pamilya nila?
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Yung mga traumatized na bata, yung mga traumatized na families.
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So, you know, I know there are many people there who are excited, ito na, Dutertis or Goda,
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but I think people are forgetting that this is not about,
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this is not about being against one family, or one dynasty, or one trap, or one president.
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This is about the conscience of our nation.
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This is about our judicial system.
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This is about us embodying, you know, the Christian values, the monotheistic values,
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the values of decency and human rights, right?
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Hindi yung disente na liberal party na dilawan.
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Hindi, I mean, like, you know, hindi pwede na tens of thousands dahil, hindi, parang wala lang.
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What kind of democracy is that?
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It's not gonna work.
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So, we have to do something really about it.
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So, I hope this will be also a reason for people to listen to the voiceless.
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So that we are reminded that hindi lang yung mga mayayaman ng tao,
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hindi lang yung mga inglisyerong tao,
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hindi lang yung mga magaling magsalitang tao,
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hindi lang yung mga pwede mag-afford ng abogadong tao,
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hindi lang yung mga na mamarites hearing sa Senate ay tao.
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Tao din yung mga ibang kababayan natin
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na may not have, you know, the kind of communicative capital
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to put it that way, you know, Habermasian way.
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But, kababayan natin mga to.
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They are just as human as us.
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They have human rights like us.
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They need to be heard.
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On that note, thank you very much, mga kameta.
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You know, as much as there are times na talagang mapapakamot ka ng ulo,
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there are also times na you say, who knows?
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Maybe, maybe, maybe things will also move in the right direction.
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On that note, God bless you.
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Thank you very much.
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