Vizconde: This is a 2nd massacre

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

MANILA, Philippines—“This is like a second massacre. Until when will we suffer? Now you know the plight of a victim of the justice system. Why should we still have faith?” Lauro Vizconde said moments after he heard the Supreme Court.

The widower’s knees wobbled and his nephews had to help him to a nearby sofa as TV news crews jostled to record a final devastating blow to his search for justice since his wife and two children were brutally stabbed to death in his Parañaque home in 1991.

“This is it! This is what I have feared all along. All is lost,” the 72-year-old sobbed as relatives and members of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC) rushed to his three-bedroom bungalow at the upper middle-class BF Homes subdivision.

“My God! Where else can we seek justice? I have done my best, why are they scared to give it to us,” Vizconde’s voice shook as he said this in Filipino.

“They were declared innocent by our good justices. This shows that the Supreme Court was bought,” he said, repeating his charges that Senior Justice Antonio Carpio had influenced the outcome of the ruling.

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