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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.
“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.”
"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.”
"State terrorism and repression has taken away our family members, who were labeled ‘enemies of the state.’”
President Duterte’s fellow Mindanawons – the Moro and Lumad – are among the many recently disappeared.
Two Lumad, a Moro child and a peasant woman went missing in the past year.
When his mother was disappeared in 2006, Ipe Soco found his voice in writing, through which he continues to cry for justice for all desaparecidos.
"Do we light a candle fo him or do we offer flowers?"
“Until we see their bones in a grave, or we see them in prison, we will not stop searching.”
MANILA – Various groups in the University of the Philippines (UP) called for justice on June 24 as they commemorated the tenth year of disappearance of former students and youth activists Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño. UP students, kin and human rights group...
It's the eighth Cordillera Day since James Balao was disappeared.
For every victim of injustice, a rights defender rises.
“Let us continue the tradition of remembering the missing, because otherwise, we would then face the bigger tragedy of forgetting – the disappeared, their struggle, and the highest sacrifice they gave for freedom and democracy.”
“We are here because we will not let them be forgotten...These are their faces, these are their names.”
Ten years ago today, veteran protest leader Danilo Macapagal, who survived the cruel martial law years, disappeared under the regime of his own cousin, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
Today is the eight year of the disappearance of NDFP peace consultant Leo Velasco.
Honor Ayroso and Johnny Orcino were both former student activists and political detainees. They were peasant organizers when they were disappeared 13 years ago today.
“It is amazing how, an injustice, whether this be an extrajudicial killing, an enforced disappearance or torture, gives birth to people who would have otherwise lived a different life, but had now taken up the cudgels for the killed, the disappeared and the tortured.” – Edita Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos
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