PAGKAMATAY NI KIAN HINALINTULAD SA PAGKAMATAY NI HESUS NG ISANG PARI SA CALOOCAN!

It was not the Cry of Balintawak, but close enough as supporters of slain Kian Loyd Delos Santos shouted “Justice for Kian!” during the funeral procession. Kian was the 17-year-old grade 11 student gunned down during the police operation called Oplan Galugad in Caloocan City last August 16. He was a drug runner and it was self-defense, the cops said. He was not a drug addict and it was murder, his family rebutted.

Ten days after his death, Kian was finally laid to rest at the La Loma Cemetery, where hundreds joined the procession to protest the government’s bloody war on drugs. It also became a march by the outraged public for the senseless killing sprees. During the mass at Sta. Quiteria Parish in Caloocan, celebrant Bishop Pablo Virgilio David likened Kian’s death to Jesus Christ’s: arrested, beaten, and killed despite being innocent.

In David’s sermon, he also compared Kian’s parents to Virgin Mary, who had to accept and bury her son, akin to a sacrificial lamb offered to the bloodthirsty. The bishop also called on the government to end the drug-related killings, and may Kian’s death be the last of its kind.

But netizens were quick to disagree with the parallelism of Christ’s and Kian’s death, disbelieving claims that the teenager was without sin. He was no Jesus, they said. That’s blasphemy, they cried.According to the spot report, the teenager drew a gun and fired when the police tried to arrest him. In retaliation, the officers shot and killed him during the ensuing gun battle. After the smoke cleared, the authorities found packets of shabu, bullets, and a gun.

But witnesses saw how Kian was collared, grabbed, punched, and slapped. They put him in a headlock and dragged him into a dark corner, where he was shot, execution-style. Human rights groups and militant organizations denounce the government’s disaster of a campaign in addressing the worsening drug problem. Thousands of drug-related killings were reported and remain unsolved months after the drug war.

According to the spot report, the teenager drew a gun and fired when the police tried to arrest him. In retaliation, the officers shot and killed him during the ensuing gun battle. After the smoke cleared, the authorities found packets of shabu, bullets, and a gun. But witnesses saw how Kian was collared, grabbed, punched, and slapped. They put him in a headlock and dragged him into a dark corner, where he was shot, execution-style.

Human rights groups and militant organizations denounce the government’s disaster of a campaign in addressing the worsening drug problem. Thousands of drug-related killings were reported and remain unsolved months after the drug war.