There was anger in my heart while I was watching Baby River’s funeral.
A three-month-old baby was deprived of a peaceful burial. There were more policemen who surrounded her than relatives. It was as if being the child of an activist mother was a great sin. The relatives requested that the handcuffs of the mother be removed so that she would be able to embrace her daughter for the last time. But they still did not allow the mother to do so—a mother who, even up to the last moment, was deprived of the chance to hold her child.
Such system of our government is truly saddening and disheartening. Unless we hear the pain and cry of the poor, there will be more Baby Rivers in our society, and there will be more shouts for justice.
FR. ARCHIE D. TAPANG, MSC
Chevalier School
Angeles City, Pampanga