“We are alarmed that soon, other media outlets would follow. Without the freedom of the press, there is the danger of other freedoms to be lost. God forbid, these are the first ‘test signs’ of curtailing other rights.”
Tags: edita burgos
Justice denied: Baliaga acquitted, search for Jonas continues after a decade
“We call on him to tell us where Jonas is.”
7 years since Jonas’ disappearance | ‘My son is still missing’ – Edita Burgos
Edita Burgos took the witness stand at the first trial hearing of Maj. Harry Baliaga Jr. who is charged with the disappearance of her son Jonas.
Then and now | Marcos-era mosquito press shares lessons with new breed of alternative media
Whenever allowances were delayed or the reality of scarce resources hit them, Edita Burgos said one of the staff would shout, “Para sa Bayan!” (For the Motherland!) and all of them would continue working.
For every one killed or disappeared, hundreds replace them – Edita Burgos
“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
Kalatas kay Edita
Ni LOUISE VINCENT B. AMANTE Bulatlat.com “With Malacanang’s tough branding of human rights violations as leftist propaganda, are the authorities now saying that I will never see my son again?” – Edita Burgos, ina ni Jonas Burgos na ngayo’y desaparecido Edita, Sa mga tulad mong lahat ng gabi’y hindi oras ng pagtulog muli lang masilayan…
Promotion of military official linked to Jonas’ abduction deferred

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
“From the evidence that we have gathered from the hearing and also from the documents we were able to get, I believe that he [Brig. Gen. Eduardo Año] has a direct hand in the abduction of my son.”
Suspect in abduction of Jonas Burgos shows no proof of alibi

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“He could not look at me straight in the eye… He obviously evaded me.” – Mrs. Edita Burgos
Suspect in abduction of Jonas Burgos identified by witness

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Jeffrey Cabintoy, then busboy at the Hapag Kainan restaurant inside the Ever Gotesco mall in Quezon City when Jonas Burgos was abducted, readily pointed to Major Harry Baliaga jr. as the man who told him not to intervene when they forcibly took Jonas five years ago.
Mother of missing activist decries continuing cover-up

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“I’m about to cry. It’s been five years and we are not even closer to finding Jonas.” – Mrs. Edita Burgos
‘Nothing has changed’ since martial law – Mrs. Burgos
Video: ‘Nothing has changed’ since martial law – Mrs. Burgos