By Michael S. Resterio
KALIBO, Aklan- The family of beheaded marine Leonard Alianza wants President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to give justice to the former's brutal death in Basilan recently.Alianza was one of the 14 marines who were beheaded by believed to be members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The President gave the marines full military honors.
Alianza's mother, Mila of Barangay Mandong Batan, Aklan, said that her son’s decapitated body is scheduled to be flown over to the Kalibo Airport by a C-130 plane this week.
"I do not want my son to join the marine but he insisted and said he could protect himself from harm because he’s a criminology graduate," said Alianza’s mother.
Last year, Alianza was promoted to a corporal rank from a private first class after he was among those marine groups who killed Abu Sayyaf leader Khadafy Janjalani in a legitimate military operation.
Unconfirmed reports said that Alianza refused to be promoted to a corporal rank if his other colleagues who joined the operation will not be given due honors too.
Alianza, who graduated from the Northwest Visayas College here, went to Manila and worked as a security guard in a commercial bank after failing the Philippine Coast Guard examination.
After several months of working, he went home to Batan and passed the examinations after a councilor from nearby town encouraged him to join the marines.
After he finished his training, he was immediately deployed to Mindanao and became a full pledged marine of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
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