Days of torture: Cebu development workers share abduction ordeal

CEBU, Philippines – The men who abducted development workers and labor rights advocates Dyan Gumanao and Armand Dayoha on January 10 from a crowded pier in Cebu City held them for days in handcuffs, blindfolds, and sometimes gags and ear muffs, while threatening to turn them over to other units of a “task force” for possible execution.

The narration of the two activists strengthened reports from academe sources about “friends of friends” in the national government who helped negotiate their release. After Gumanao’s repeated questions, one of the abductors said they were taken “because of what you said earlier. You are activists.” “We could smell the engine fumes, we could feel the rocking. And we heard a voice ask them for their ORCR ,” he recounted. “We knew they had taken us out of Cebu.”But that did not keep the men from pressing both to confess to terrorist connections and actions, to giving up friends as terrorists.

“Walking to the resort, we were torn between hope for freedom and fear that they would suddenly reappear to kill us,” said Gumanao.The couple checked in, ordered food as they had been deprived of meals for an entire day, but searched for their gadgets and immediately notified their families, asking to be rescued.They spent the night sleeping in shifts, still worried about men barging into their rooms.

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