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.
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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.’”
‘No justice under Duterte’ – kin of desaparecidos
President Duterte’s fellow Mindanawons – the Moro and Lumad – are among the many recently disappeared.
4 disappeared under Duterte
Two Lumad, a Moro child and a peasant woman went missing in the past year.
11 years missing | Mothers of 2 disappeared UP students hope Palparan is convicted soon
The next hearing on the case is on July 17.
In search for justice, desaparecido’s son becomes a poet
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.
11 years missing | Where is Leopoldo Ancheta?
“Do we light a candle fo him or do we offer flowers?”
All Souls’ Day for the kin of the disappeared
“Until we see their bones in a grave, or we see them in prison, we will not stop searching.”
10 years | UP students, human rights groups call for justice for 2 missing students
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 Karapatan held a cultural protest at the Palma Hall lobby in UP…