Missing: No. 23 in the DoJ Rebellion List
Philip Limjoco is included in a list of 51 individuals being charged by
the Department of Justice (DoJ) with rebellion. His name is No. 23 in the
list. He disappeared on May 8 and remains missing to this day. Limjoco’s
disappearance came more than two months after the declaration of
Presidential Proclamation No. 1017 on Feb. 24 putting the country under a
state of national emergency.
BY BULATLAT
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Philip Limjoco is included in a list of 51
individuals being charged by the Department of Justice (DoJ) with
rebellion. His name is No. 23 in the list. He disappeared on May 8 and
remains missing to this day.
Limjoco’s disappearance came more than two
months after the declaration of Presidential Proclamation No. 1017 on Feb.
24 putting the country under a state of national emergency.
Beleaguered President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
declared PP 1017 after top military officials announced on the same day
that they thwarted a plot to topple the administration. The foiled coup,
military officials later said, was a handiwork of rightist and leftist
rebels.
Three days after, on Feb. 27, the DOJ came
out with a list of 51 individuals charged with rebellion. The list
included six party-list representatives, six personalities of legal
organizations, and alleged leaders of the Communist Party of the
Philippines (CPP). |
Limjoco with grandchild
PHOTO COURTESY OF KARAPATAN |
Limjoco’s son, Glenn,
reported his father’s disappearance to the human rights group Karapatan
(Alliance for the Advancement of Peoples’ Rights). In an interview with
Bulatlat, Glenn said their family started to get worried about Limjoco
after he failed to show up at their meeting place in the afternoon of May
8.
Glenn said their
family suspects that the military is behind his father’s disappearance. He
also said that since last year, their family noticed that they were being
cased by intelligence agents. They have also been receiving threats. Due
to this, they filed a harassment case against the Intelligence Service of
the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP) last year.
“If the military has a
case against my father, they have to present him in court and give him due
process,” Glenn said.
Karapatan lists
Limjoco’s case as the 16th enforced disappearance since January
this year.
Bulatlat
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