Midnight, our sons and daughters
Were cut down and taken from us
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
U2 – Mothers of the Disappeared
I do not know exactly how many activists involuntarily disappeared or were “salvaged” during the military dictatorship of Marcos, but it was a totally different way to be neutralized by the state at that time and a single or few incident easily assumed monumental proportions. This is not to mean that other military atrocities were less condemnable, it’s just that evil took another malevolent form in the military campaign of the fascist state. In this case there were no telltale signs of torture or physical pain inflicted on the body of the detained languishing in some obscure detention center of a military camp. There was only extreme mental anguish on the family, the mother especially, caused by the prolonged uncertainty of the fate that has befallen their loved ones. Read the rest of this entry »
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