“Now they have an idea of how painful and difficult it is for the families of the disappeared.”
Wife of Jonas Burgos likens burden to kin of COVID-19 victims
Tags: enforced disappearances
Kin insulted by gov’t move to delist enforced disappearances cases from UN records
“You took Jonas away from us. Now, you want the history of Jonas’ own abduction and disappearance erased from history. Stop abducting your own citizens. The ones who should be made to pay for the violations are the very criminals within your ranks.”
Kin of disappeared support Colmenares’ senate bid
“Neri Colmenares has always supported our call for justice…We want him in the senate.”
For kin of the disappeared, grief knows no end
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.
International group calls for an end to enforced disappearances
While the drug-related killings have overshadowed enforced disappearances, there are reports of the rise of the number of EJK victims who were first abducted and disappeared before their bodies were found.
‘Return Jonas to us!’ — Mrs. Burgos tells military
“An order by the [Supreme] Court for the military to produce Jonas was not complied with and to this day, nobody has been cited in contempt.”
‘No justice under Duterte’ – kin of desaparecidos
President Duterte’s fellow Mindanawons – the Moro and Lumad – are among the many recently disappeared.
Justice denied: Baliaga acquitted, search for Jonas continues after a decade
“We call on him to tell us where Jonas is.”
Timeline | The Search for Jonas Burgos
For more than 10 years, the Burgos family has been searching for Jonas Burgos. Bulatlat has chronicled the painstaking journey of fighting for justice.
Court acquits military officer in abduction of Jonas Burgos
“We will still find Jonas.” — Edita Burgos
4 disappeared under Duterte
Two Lumad, a Moro child and a peasant woman went missing in the past year.