4 JASIG holders missing
A person who says he was abducted by military men and may have been a goner had he not escaped from his captors will be presented as a witness in one of three separate petitions for writ of habeas corpus filed by human rights lawyers before the Supreme Court (SC) on Aug. 3.
BY DABET CASTAÑEDA
Bulatlat.com
A man who says he was abducted by military men and may have been a goner had he not escaped from his captors will be presented as a witness in one of three separate petitions for writ of habeas corpus filed by human rights lawyers before the Supreme Court (SC) on Aug. 3.
The witness, Antonio Lacno, said he escaped from his alleged military captors on June 27 somewhere in Camarines Sur a day after he and four others were reportedly abducted.
The four others are Prudencio Calubid, said to be a regional consultant to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace panel; Ariel Beloy, Calubid’s staff member; Calubid’s wife, Celina Palma, and sister-in-law, Gloria Soco.
Another staff member of Calubid, Leopoldo Ancheta, whom the military said was a New People’s Army (NPA) member, was reportedly abducted earlier on June 24 in Bulacan.
Rogelio Calubad, another NDFP peace panel consultant for Bicol, was also reportedly seized together with his son, Gabriel, in a separate incident on June 17.
All seven have been declared missing by the families of the victims and rights groups. There have been unconfirmed reports that at least one of them, Calubid, may have been summarily executed by his captors – another statistic to the mounting cases of forced disappearances – 179 persons since 2001 – and political murders, with about 717 already reported for the same period.
