MANILA – Edith Burgos, mother of disappeared activist Jonas Burgos and prime mover of search campaigns for two decades, is the new president of the International Coalition Against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED). ICAED is a global network of organizations and...
“We have done everything we could. But we are faithful to what we started and we will pursue it until the end.” – Edita Burgos
Asked why the Aquino government does not want to ratify the law, human rights lawyer Edre Olalia said that probably one of the reasons why the government is hesitant to ratify the convention is that once it does, it would be incumbent upon it to allow visits of special rapporteurs in the country.
"Why do such human rights violations persist with impunity even under the Aquino administration?" – Fr. Rex Reyes, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in the Philippines (NCCP)
"It is about the journey of a mother who seeks the truth about her son.”
"I felt that while we had the documents with us, we were in constant danger. Somehow, I was relieved after I submitted these to the SC."
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Two vital witnesses to the enforced disappearance of two University of the Philippines (UP) students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan are eager to face the alleged perpetrators of the crime. During the Sept. 14 hearing, the...
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
The eyewitness, a busboy at the restaurant where Jonas Burgos was abducted, said he was about to help Jonas when a woman and three men approached him, one after another, to tell him not to intervene. One of them he later identified as Maj. Harry Baliaga Jr, who was then assigned to the 56th Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
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