MANILA, Philippines -- Activist Jonas Burgos has been missing for one year now. And the militant peasant group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP or Movement of Farmers in the Philippines) expressed solidarity with the Burgos family and assailed the Arroyo administration for doing nothing since his abduction.

Burgos has been a volunteer of the KMP's chapter Alyansa ng Magbubukid ng Bulacan (Alliance of Farmers in Bulacan) when he disappeared.

His family maintains that he was abducted by the military for being an alleged communist.

“We are one with the Burgos family in searching for Jonas and calling for justice. It's been a year since he was abducted but nothing has been done by the regime. We have searched military bases, held protest actions, conducted marches, spoke in numerous venues, attended hearings, and have even brought the issue to international bodies. But up till now nothing has been done by the regime but to deny that it has a hand in Jonas’s abduction,” KMP internal deputy secretary general Willy Marbella said in a statement.

Marbella attended a march and Mass at St. Peter's Church in Fairview, Quezon City held to mark the first anniversary of Burgos's disappearance.

The farmers’ leader said Burgos's disappearance, along with the arrest last January of KMP's external secretary general Randall Echanis for murder and the filing last week of a murder case against KMP chair Rafael Mariano, were evident attempts to silence the his group.

He said KMP remained determined to continue speaking against the policies of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and fight for farmers' causes.