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Families of the disappeared commemorate their loved ones on All Souls Day, decrying what they described as the “state’s apparent disregard for accountability and justice.”
Two days apart this week, two important commemorations took place. One evoked a resounding plea for long-delayed justice; the other, for the resumption of peace negotiations to attain just and lasting peace. In each case, concerned groups and advocates urged President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to act positively.
“We still call for justice up to now. Compensation will just pass by our hands. I hope that the next generation will continue our fight."
Mula kay Marcos at ngayon, balik kay Marcos, hindi tumigil ang karahasan ng estado.
“This is déjà vu: Marcos in power, ordinary citizens as desaparecidos. Lest we forget, the massive human rights violations 50 years ago did not end well with the Marcoses."
It’s been 15 years since Jonas was abducted.
“We will continue to write and tell stories about their lives.”
Human rights group Karapatan documented 19 victims of enforced disappearances under the Duterte administration. This despite the Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012 supposedly in force.
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.
Cerbito is among the countless victims of the Duterte administration's "war against illegal drugs," which only targeted the poor, according to its critics.
“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...
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...
“Neri Colmenares has always supported our call for justice...We want him in the senate.”
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.
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