FOR 17 years, Edita Burgos has looked inside body bags, visited military camps, led street protests and filed court cases in a desperate search for he...
“Human rights group Karapatan estimates hundreds of people have gone missing or died in extra-judicial killings since the government began fighting a communist insurgency in the late 1960s.Forced disappearances have continued under the administration of Marcos Jr, who took power in 2022.17 years, Edita Burgos has looked inside body bags, visited military camps, led street protests and filed court cases in a desperate search for her missing son Jonas.
The military accused Jonas of being a high-ranking rebel leader but has always denied involvement in his disappearance. An army major was arrested in 2013 and put on trial for the alleged arbitrary detention of Jonas but he was acquitted in 2017 after a key witness failed to testify. Jonas, who briefly trained in his early teens to become a priest, had been helping people in poor rural villages in Bulacan province when he was abducted in Manila. Edita has long blamed an army battalion operating in the province for her son’s disappearance.
The documentary was a “desperate attempt to revive an old case linking the military to the disappearance of Jonas Burgos,” said Jonathan Malaya, spokesman for the National Security Council. Thirteen activists have gone missing during Marcos Jr’s term, taking the group’s tally to 1,913 since the start of the communist insurgency during the elder Marcos’s rule more than five decades ago. This does not include the many victims of suspected extra-judicial killings at that time.“You don’t see a tombstone and you do not have closure as a family. It has a longer-lasting impact that extends to the community.
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