Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri and Senator Sherwin Gatchalian said the indictment of the seven Tau Gamma Phi fraternity members related to John Matthew Salilig’s death is a stern warning to those who continue the harmful tradition of hazing.
Gatchalian echoed Zubiri’s sentiments by urging the Filipino people to join Salilig’s family in “staying vigilant until justice is served and those who violated the law are held accountable.”
“The message to those who continue committing hazing should be loud and clear: that they will not get away with their ghastly crimes and their mockery of the law. The culture of violence masked as brotherhood should stop now,” he said.in view of the brutal death of University of Santo Tomas law student Horacio “Atio” Castillo III allegedly in the hands of members of the Aegis Juris fraternity.
Then-President Rodrigo Duterte later signed the amendment to its 1995 version, which now bans “all forms of hazing in fraternities, sororities and organizations in school, including citizens’ military training and citizens’ army training.”–sparked talks of revisiting and amending the Anti-Hazing Act again to put in place stiffer penalties for school administrators, fraternities and even owners of venues where violent initiation rites are conducted.
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