Another life wasted! – Rep. Alcover

“Another life has gone and wasted. She should have used her brains and beauty to the fore and along the parameters of a truly free and democratic process. What happened to Kemberly deeply saddens me because her young life was abused and cut-short by the violent and Godless Maoist terrorist CPP-NPA-NDF whose penchant for exploitation and manipulation of our youth’s idealism remains unabated and with stinging impunity,” said ANAD Rep. Jun Alcover in reaction to Kemberly “Kimay: Jul Luna’s death in Sitio Bulacao, Barangay Concepcion, City of Valencia, last Dec 15, 2009.

Contrary to what the article “Brainy beauty joins NPA, dies in Bukidnon” (pp1, PDI, January 8, 2010) hardly wanted to immortalize Kimay’s involvement in the terrorist underground activities, “Tributes mean nothing when one’s life is gone. Adulations ad memoriam for a supposedly noble endeavor is meaningless and does not serve anyone when one’s vision and idealism were purposely twisted and manipulated with so much calumny against the people they themselves vowed to serve without knowing that they are mere pawns to foster the inhuman and violent advocacies of Maoist terrorism resulting in their untimely demise,” Rep. Alcover retorted.

Kemberly, a student of Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology in Iligan City, is one of the many youths that the Maoist terrorists duped all in the name of fighting for a people that they themselves manipulated and exploited. “Many of them are still in the mountains and with them not for anything else but because of fear of being liquidated once they shy away from the movement,” Rep. Alcover added.

Rep. Alcover further explained that he himself, in the mid-‘70’s, was duped by glib-tongued political officers of the Maoist CPP into believing that theirs was a worthy and noble cause to protect and serve the Filipino people from the fangs of a corrupt and abusive government system. “No one in the top leadership of the CPP told us that we were to embrace and promote the Maoist communist ideology! Indeed a brazen act of deception and lie that they have mastered in duping our youth with impunity until today,” said Rep. Alcover.

“This is what happened to Kemberly, whose body was found along with seven other guerrillas, dumped by their comrades deep in the forest of Concepcion, days after the Dec. 15 encounter,” Rep. Alcover said.

“Kemberly’s fate should serve as a stinging lesson for all our youths. Idealism and patriotism is what we should encourage our youth but all these must be along the parameters of a real and true democracy and freedom that our forebears have fought and shed their lives for,” Rep. Alcover noted.