The group continues to demand justice for all victims of enforced disappearance and to hold into account the perpetrators. There are more than 1,000 who disappeared from Marcos dictatorship until the present administration, according to Desaparecidos.
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Drug suspect missing for over 2 years
Cerbito is among the countless victims of the Duterte administration’s “war against illegal drugs,” which only targeted the poor, according to its critics.
Quest for justice continues for kin of the disappeared
“Nobody deserves this unending longing and pain.” MANILA – Relatives of the disappeared have once again gathered on Nov. 2 at the Bantayog ng mga Desaparecido at the National Shrine of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Baclaran for their yearly traditional commemoration of All Soul’s Day. They carried not only candles and flowers to offer…
Aparición | Armando Portajada Sr.
PARA KAY MANDING Ni LIGAYA PORTAJADA Sa aking pagpikit, pagdilat ng mata Ang aking hanap, ikaw aking sinta Di na maidlip itong aking diwa Hinanap na kita, nang ikaw ay mawala. Hinanap kita sa mga himpilan ng pulis Pati sa mga punerarya, itinaloglog kong pilit Ngunit pawang ako’y bigo: itong aking nais na muling makita,…
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By DEE AYROSO
Delisting Desap
Illustration by DEE AYROSO
Kin of disappeared support Colmenares’ senate bid
“Neri Colmenares has always supported our call for justice…We want him in the senate.”
For kin of the disappeared, grief knows no end
With no cemetery or columbarium to visit, the relatives instead laid the photographs of their loved ones on the ground, lighting candles and offering white flowers.
8 dead, 2 disappeared on Duterte’s terror list
“The scriptwriters of these lists could care less about whether these persons are already dead or reported missing, so long as they can cover a wide range of activists and rights defenders to implicate.”
Army officials attempt to clear Palparan in Cadapan-Empeño abduction
“This 2018, we hope that the case against Palparan be finally resolved soon. The case has been running since 2014, and it has been a long ordeal for us and all of Palparan’s victims. We want to see him in jail this year.”
A gathering of victims of tyranny, from Marcos martial law to present
“State terrorism and repression has taken away our family members, who were labeled ‘enemies of the state.’”