International Day of the Disappeared

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WHEN a relative or friend bids farewell to relocate to a foreign land, all know of his safe departure; when one falls gravely ill and dies, the family has the solace of burying the loved one in a burial site where the departed can be visited at any time.

However, when one is forcibly disappeared, the family is left in torment not knowing where the desaparecido was secluded, how excruciatingly he or she was tortured, and whether the disappeared was summarily killed. Not even a makeshift cross marks the victim's grave.

It is lamentable that while the Philippine government takes pride in having enacted Republic Act 10353, or the 'Anti-Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance Act of 2012,' the first and only legislation of its kind in Asia, the law has been barely implemented.

 

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