Families of "desaparecidos" or persons who disappeared and the human rights groups on Tuesday, Aug. 30, held a program to commemorate the "International Day of the Disappeared" at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani in Quezon City.
Members and supporters of the Campaign Against the Return of the Marcoses a
Kin of the disappeared reiterated their demand to surface 1,902 desaparecidos at a gathering in Bantayog ng mga Bayani in commemmoration of the International Day of the Disappeared.
“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."
(Note: At past noon of April 28, 2007, six people barged into the Quezon City fastfood where farmer-activist Jonas Burgos was taking lunch and seized him, shocking not just the mall goers but a nation that thought such scenarios had long gone with martial law’s lifting. The son of the…