Kin Remember Loved Ones Who Disappeared, Express Disappointment Over Aquino’s Inaction
Published on August 31, 2010
On the occasion of the International Day of the Disappeared, relatives of victims of enforced disappearances marched to Mendiola bridge to demand that their loved ones be surfaced and the perpetrators, including former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo be punished.
By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL and RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — Sherly Pascual, 53, has been looking for her missing husband for 22 years now.
On April 7, 1988, between 4:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Sherly’s husband Roberto was taken by at least four armed men in their house in Navotas. “We were fixing the house that day when they arrived. They took my husband without a word,” Sherly told Bulatlat.
Their three sons, then aged three, six and nine, also saw how their father was abducted. “Oyo, our second child, embraced his father but the men violently brushed him aside, his body slammed the wooden walls,” Sherly related.
“I was hit with the butt of a gun on the forehead,” Sherly said, pointing to a scar just above her left eye. “I followed them out of the alley but I eventually lost consciousness.”
Sherly has been searching for husband Roberto for 22 years now. (Photo by Ronalyn V. Olea / bulatlat.com)
“Personally, I do not have expectations on him [Aquino],” Sherly said, adding that her husband was abducted during the administration of Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, the president’s mother.
Sherly said it was difficult having to raise her three sons all by herself. “We went through different crises,” Sherly said.
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Source: Bulatlat.com
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