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They warned that they would be shot if they dared to look up.
They took a mobile phone belonging to Guinto’s wife and 100
Pesos (USD 2), then forced Guinto towards a black van and left.
The perpetrators then stopped in front of Abelardo Interior’s
house, less than two kilometres from Guinto’s place. Their
barking dog awakened Abelardo’s wife. When she went out to
have a look she was surprised to see a rifle pointed at her. She
did not notice that her husband had followed and was just behind
her. The armed men ordered them to get inside the house and
wake up their children. They ransacked the second floor,
apparently in search of a gun, but failed to find any. They took a
farm implement, a wallet containing 20 Pesos and five live
chickens, and ordered the family to get out of the house and lie
on the ground face down or be shot. But Interior’s youngest child
did look up and saw his father blindfolded and being assaulted a
few metres away.
The third victim, Virgilio Tranquilino, was a family friend of
the Interiors who was spending the night at their house.
After the incident, workers from the Citizens’ Alliance for the
Advancement of Human Rights, a provincial chapter of Karapatan,
started looking for the victims in various police and military
camps. They went to the military’s Fort Magsaysay and the police
headquarters in General Tinio, Nueva Ecija, but the authorities
denied having them in custody.
Philip Limjoco:
Disappeared after delivering son to bus station
Philip Limjoco was last seen by his son Glen at a bus terminal
in Dau, Pampanga around 8:20am on 8 May 2006. Glen had gone
to visit some of father’s friends in the area together with him
and was going back to Manila. On their way Glen noticed that a
white Toyota Revo with tinted windows and number plates
covered with dark fiberglass was following their car. When they
arrived at the terminal, the car had disappeared.
Once Glen reached Manila around 9:30am he sent a text
message to his father, but he did not receive a reply. Around
10:30am, he sent another, and tried to call his mobile phone at
around 11am, but no one answered. Glen first thought that his
father might be driving or busy, but when he failed to get any
response by evening he began to worry. Then he asked some of
his relatives if his father had contacted them or if they knew of
his whereabouts; but they did not.
On May 9, Glen sought the help from human rights group
Karapatan. In July 2005 he had done so once after unidentified
men following him wherever he went. Glen had no idea as to
why he was stalked, except that his father was accused of being
a member of the New People’s Army.
Philip Limjoco was included on a list of 51 individuals charged
with rebellion by the Department of Justice that was reportedly
drawn up by the police Directorate and Investigation and
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VICTIM: Philip Limjoco
INCIDENT: Disappearance
ALLEGED PERPETRATORS:
Unidentified police or
military personnel
DATE: 8 May 2006
AHRC UA-170-2006
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