By KIMBERLIE OLMAYA NGABIT-QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY — How do you search for the disappeared? Where do you start? When do you stop? When James Moy Balao did not arrive at his destination on September 17, 2008, his family and friends wanted to believe that he just missed the ride or that he…
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Human Kinetics
By SARAH RAYMUNDO Bulatlat.com (for Sherlyn Cadapan*) I picture you swiftly running around the track reserved for athletes: sprinting soles spiking tired carabao grass. Like those childhood dragonflies that eluded chasing they say you didn’t want to be bothered while you do this. Not for lunch, not for a radical chit-chat, not for a high-five.…
Remembering a Desaparecido From Hacienda Luisita
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA — Sydney Ramos went all the way to Manila from San Rafael, Tarlac to join other relatives of victims of enforced disappearances. Ronaldo Intal, the father of her three-year old son, was forcibly abducted on April 3, 2006 and has been missing since. Based on accounts of witnesses, Ronaldo…
Kin Remember Loved Ones Who Disappeared, Express Disappointment Over Aquino’s Inaction
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and
RONALYN V. OLEA
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, relatives of victims of enforced disappearances marched to Mendiola bridge to demand that their loved ones be surfaced and the perpetrators, including former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo be punished.
Rights Groups Urge Aquino to Prosecute Arroyo, Human Rights Violators
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Karapatan said rendering justice means prosecuting and punishing the guilty parties in these violations, indemnifying the victims; and declaring not to do similar transgressions again.
Jonas Burgos’s Kin Denounce SC Decision
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Did it have to take so long for the Supreme Court to find out that the investigators made serious lapses? …the Supreme Court took five weeks short of 2 years simply to say that it cannot rule on the case because there were lapses in the investigation?” Mrs. Edita Burgos said in a letter to the justices dated June 23, a copy of which was sent to Bulatlat.
UN official Slams Impunity in the Philippines, Repeats Call for Prosecution of Perpetrators
By RONALYN OLEA
UN Special Rapporteur Prof. Philip Alston visited the country in February 2007 to look into the spate of extrajudicial killings. He cited the counter-insurgency program of the government and the failure to prosecute perpetrators as the main reasons behind the killings.
Mother Braves Uncertainty to Find Abducted Son
By ZOFIA LEAL
Another mother has gone to a place she had never been to find her missing son. Wilma Rodriguez has just started her long journey. Nagtatapang-tapangan lang ako. Hindi talaga ako matapang. Pero kapag hindi ka lumaban, hindi rin titigil ang mga yan,” (I just try to be a fighter. I am not really a fighter. Because if you don’t fight, they would not stop.) she said.
Cordillera Rights Group Marks Int’l Day of the Disappeared
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Human Rights Watch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY ? Human rights advocates together with the family of a missing activist staged a rally at the Igorot Park here as part of the observance of the International day of the Disappeared on August 30. Led by the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance…
Farmer Remains Missing After Being Beaten, Abducted by Soldiers
A farmer in Compostela Valley who last seen beaten and forcibly taken allegedly by soldiers on July 4 remains missing. Alvin Lopez, 25, a resident of Monkayo was hogtied and forced into a military vehicle during a military operation. Alvin’s mother, Erlinda, has filed a complaint before the Commission on Human Rights against the military’s 26th Infantry Battalion. Read the full story
Video: Mrs. Burgos Slams Promotion of Jonas’s Abductors, Calls for Ouster of President Arroyo
Promotion of Jonas’s ‘Abductors’ Slammed