The trauma and struggle that loved ones of slain farmers have to live with everyday
The trauma and struggle that loved ones of slain farmers have to live with everyday
By GABBIE CASTRO
Bulatlat.com
BACOOR, Cavite — Trauma continues to haunt women relatives of farmers and activists who fell victims to extrajudicial killings in the last five years of the Duterte presidency. The pain they have to live with never really goes away and has turned their lives around.
Jennifer Palero, mother of slain activist Jaymar, shared with Bulatlat in an online interview that it was hard to come to terms with the death of her son. Especially when Jaymar’s child keeps asking for her father.
“All that my son did was to paint. That is not a reason to kill him. There are more who are wicked and still get away with it. How could they kill my son for what he did?” she said.
Palero is one of the two young activists in Bicol who were shot while painting graffiti a day before President Duterte delivered his last State of the Nation Address.
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