Thursday, October 14, 2010

Crime of passion

Crime of passion is what they called this heinous killing of a call center agent Katrina Gantan, 22, a call center agent in Clark Free port, who was beheaded inside a hotel room in Angeles City last October 1.Gantan was decapitated inside the Miyabe Court in Barangay Pulung Maragul, Angeles City on October 1 and her head was taken by the suspect.The witnesses told police investigators that Reyes left the hotel at around 9 p.m., two hours after he and the victim checked in on October 1.The suspect allegedly told hotel employees that Gantan was taking a bath and that he would buy something from the grocery.The tricycle driver disclosed that Reyes was carrying a bag when he left the hotel.Police showed the victim's uncle a cartographic sketch of the suspect, who turned out to be her boyfriend. Reyes, on the other hand, vehemently denied the accusations, saying he did not kill her girlfriend. According to him, he was working when the crime was committed. October 4, policemen nabbed Adonis Reyes, 30, identified as Gantan’s boyfriend and co-worker for his supposed involvement in the murder. Employees of Miyabe Court in Angeles said Reyes matched the description of Gantan’s companion when they checked into the motel on the night of October 1. Gantan was found headless and naked inside a toilet in the motel the following day.
How can a human do such thing like this ?
People said "Only if this person was drunk, might be on the influence of drugs or have lost its sanity other than that a human can not do such thing like this. Adonis Reyes was from the province of Nueva Vizcaya.


Looking back at history.

Ilongots practice the tradition of head haunting.

Since Nueva Vizcaya's birth as a province, traces of the culture and customs of its early settlers—the Ilongots (Bugkalot)

The Ilongots are a tribe who inhabit the southern Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains, on the east side of Luzon Island in the Philippines.

Headhunting is the practice of taking a person's head after killing them.
As a practice, headhunting has been the subject of intense discussion within the anthropological community as to its possible social roles, functions, and motivations. Themes that arise in anthropological writings about headhunting include mortification of the rival, ritual violence, cosmological balance, the display of manhood, cannibalism, and prestige. Contemporary scholars generally agree that its primary function was ceremonial and that it was part of the process of structuring, reinforcing, and defending hierarchical relationships between communities and individuals. Some experts theorize that the practice stemmed from the belief that the head contained "soul matter" or life force, which could be harnessed through its capture.


I have read story of the ethnographer Renato Rosaldo today. He question how can grief and pain cause an Ilongot to cut and throw the head of a person .To throw the head he is to throw the pain.

To my readers,

Let us all understand that in life we really experience pain and hardships . Pain can be caused by people we meet in our everyday life . It is hard for those of us who doubt the existence of a life hereafter. It is hard to find comfort in such notions. The feeling of revenge will never give us inner peace. Put aside this grief and pain because in time we will find relief and solace in the world hereafter.

True love never have its own self motive and intention. True love never ask any in return it is a gift freely given.

What has been done was done let all that had happen be in the hands of our Lord Jesus Christ.