'Senseless killing' of former DepEd employee condemned
Published Dec 4, 2018 03:45 pm
By Merlina Malipot
The Department of Education (DepEd) condemned the “senseless killing” of an Ateneo De Manila University (AdMU) graduate, who used work with its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service (DRRMS) unit.
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The Executive Committee of the DepEd, in a statement posted on its DepEd Tayo Facebook page, mourned the death of 23-year-old Francis de Leon, and called for a “speedy, thorough, and just resolution” of his case.
Citing reports, DepEd said De Leon was found dead with stab wounds at the corner of J. Molina and Blue Bird Streets in Barangay Concepcion, Marikina City at around 1:20 a.m. on December 1. Based on the initial report, DepEd saidd that his “belongings were missing due to an alleged hold-up.”
DepEd said that De Leon, who is also called “Kiko,” dedicated his young life to “imagining and creating a more safe, resilient, and just world.”
De Leon, DepEd said, “laid the foundations for contingency planning for the public education sector” and the Disaster Management Group of the DepEd’s Central Office before pursuing his masters degree in Disaster Risk Reduction in August of this year. His guided his areas of responsibility – Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), the National Capital Region (NCR) – among others.
“He is fondly remembered and sorely missed not only by those he worked for and within the DepEd's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service, but also the countless others whose lives he touched and protected,” DepEd said.
DepEd also called on the authorities to give De Leon and his family justice. “He knew that the taking of lives and dreams, through action or inaction, and inflicting suffering can and never should be justified nor tolerated,” the agency said. “He knew that justice could only truly be served by just laws under a free government. He knew that justice was not defined by revenge, but by societal transformation,” he added.
De Leon, DepEd said, “lived and worked with humility, passion, generosity and limitless joy; he remains an example and inspiration to reformists in government.” DepEd added that it “shall serve justice by sustaining and building upon his work, knowing full well that he is watching over us” and will “continue fighting with knowledge and wisdom, virtue and dignity, sacrifice and selflessness, and joy” - just as he did.
(MANILA BULLETIN)
The Executive Committee of the DepEd, in a statement posted on its DepEd Tayo Facebook page, mourned the death of 23-year-old Francis de Leon, and called for a “speedy, thorough, and just resolution” of his case.
Citing reports, DepEd said De Leon was found dead with stab wounds at the corner of J. Molina and Blue Bird Streets in Barangay Concepcion, Marikina City at around 1:20 a.m. on December 1. Based on the initial report, DepEd saidd that his “belongings were missing due to an alleged hold-up.”
DepEd said that De Leon, who is also called “Kiko,” dedicated his young life to “imagining and creating a more safe, resilient, and just world.”
De Leon, DepEd said, “laid the foundations for contingency planning for the public education sector” and the Disaster Management Group of the DepEd’s Central Office before pursuing his masters degree in Disaster Risk Reduction in August of this year. His guided his areas of responsibility – Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), the National Capital Region (NCR) – among others.
“He is fondly remembered and sorely missed not only by those he worked for and within the DepEd's Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Service, but also the countless others whose lives he touched and protected,” DepEd said.
DepEd also called on the authorities to give De Leon and his family justice. “He knew that the taking of lives and dreams, through action or inaction, and inflicting suffering can and never should be justified nor tolerated,” the agency said. “He knew that justice could only truly be served by just laws under a free government. He knew that justice was not defined by revenge, but by societal transformation,” he added.
De Leon, DepEd said, “lived and worked with humility, passion, generosity and limitless joy; he remains an example and inspiration to reformists in government.” DepEd added that it “shall serve justice by sustaining and building upon his work, knowing full well that he is watching over us” and will “continue fighting with knowledge and wisdom, virtue and dignity, sacrifice and selflessness, and joy” - just as he did.