University of the Philippines coeds Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño have been missing for seven years now, but Cadapan’s mother says her daughter’s mobile phone still rings when she dials it, giving her hope the two may still be alive.
The military is now prohibited from issuing a hit list—officially called “order of battle”—with the enactment of a law against enforced disappearances, Malacañang said on Saturday.
A fisherman on Monday identified a government soldier as one of the armed men who allegedly abducted University of the Philippines students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan in 2006.
Empty tokenism. Human rights lawyer Edre Olalia has regarded President Aquino’s doubling of reward for the capture of retired Army major general Jovito Palparan Jr. in this light.
Military officers cannot dodge responsibility for having committed immoral acts by saying that they were “just following orders.”
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. The mother of missing University of the Philippines student Karen Empeño said on Saturday she could not believe that Philippine National Police Director General Nicanor Bartolome could say that it was hard to find retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan because the fugitive had received the same training as his hunters.
A lawyer for the families of two missing University of the Philippines activists on Saturday assailed the claim of fugitive retired Major General Jovito Palparan that he was the victim in the abduction case that has prompted him to run from the law.
After denying the statement of the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the military has been coddling fugitive ex-Major General Jovito Palparan, the Philippine Army urged Palparan on Thursday to give himself up.
A human rights group on Wednesday called on President Benigno Aquino III to order the Armed Forces of the Philippines to cooperate in the arrest of retired Major General Jovito Palparan and others involved in the abduction of two students from the University of the Philippines.
A lawyer representing retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. on Monday told a Malolos City regional trial court (RTC) the two University of the Philippines (UP) students, whose abduction and disappearance in 2006 were allegedly ordered by the former Army officer, were still alive.
Staff Sergeant Edgardo Osorio, a co-accused of retired Major General Jovito Palparan in the abduction of two University of the Philippines students in 2006, has invoked the late President Manuel L. Quezon’s executive order that would put the soldier in the custody of the Philippine Army.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) questioned on Wednesday, the transfer to a military camp of two co-accused of retired Major General Jovito Palparan Jr. who have been charged with the kidnapping of two University of the Philippines students missing since 2006.
The Association of General and Flag Officers (AGFO) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is seeking a stop to the “undue trial by publicity, spawned by some media entities” against retired Major General Jovito Palparan in a statement released Wednesday.
