Ito ang salaysay ng dalawa sa limang mga supporters ni dating Pangulong Estrada na dinampot ng mga intelligence agents noong Lunes.
Ang lima ay sina Virgilio Eustaquio, Jim Cabauatan, Ruben Dionisio, Dennis Evona at Jose Curameng. Maliban kay Curameng, lahat ay mieyembro ng Union of the Masses for Democracy and Justice (UMDJ), isang grupong nasu-suporta kay Estrada.
Si Curameng ay isang Quezon City police na napadaan lang sa bahay ni Eustaquio sa Kamuning, Quezon City kung saan nagmi-miting ang apat ng sila ay dinampot. Nasa ospital pa si Dionisio dahil siya raw talaga ang pinahirapan ng mga ISAFP agents. Pinilit kasi siyang pinapa-amin na komunista raw siya at may balak raw i-assasinate ang ilang cabinet members ni Arroyo.
Sabi ni Eustaquio, chairman ng UMDJ, dinala sila sa magkakahiwalay na lugar . Nakatakip ang kanilang mata: “Ang aking kinalagyan ang pinakamalapit kay Ruben (Dionisio). Naririnig ko ang mga suntok at ang mga palo sa kanya. Naririnig ko rin ang mga tanong sa kanya at kanyang mga paghagulhol.”
Siguradong sinadya ng mga hayop na ISAFP na iparinig ang kanilang pagpapahirap sa kanilang mga kasama. Sabi pa ni Eustaguio:“Ang hirap. Sa bawat naririnig kong palo kay Ruben, parang ako na rin ang sinasaktan. At mas mahirap dahil wala akong magagawa. Buong gabi yun. Hindi nila kami pinatulog. Kapag nakita nila inaantok ka, papaluin. Kung naririnig nyo lang ang iyak ng aking kasama.”
Pagpatuloy ng salaysay ni Eustaquio: “Hilo-hilo at litong-lito kami. Hindi naming alam kung gabi o umaga. Hindi naming alam kung ano ang nangyayari sa aming mga kasama. Hindi naming alam kung sino ang dumukot sa amin. Hindi naming kilala ang mga nanakit sa amin. Basta pina-paamin kami na kasama ra kami sa hit squad ng mga komunista.
“Tatlong beses ako linipat. Una dinala kami sa isang malamig na lugar. Tapos sa isang mainit na lugar. Sunod sa isang mahangin na lugar, may mga damo. Mental torture. Naa-amoy ko ang gasolina. Malamig na kamay ang humahawak sa amin.”
Ang salaysay naman ni Cabautan: “Nakatakip ang aking mata. Nakatali ang aking mga kamay. Iba-ibang klaseng sound ang aking naririnig.Dinala ako sa isang lugar na parang taniman. Naririg ko na parang may pinpalakol. At parang naghihinang ng itak o patalim. At may minamartilyo. Mahirap ang physical torture pero ang mental torture mas mahirap.”
Pinagbabawal sa batas ng mundo, hindi lang sa Pilipinas, ang torture. Pumirma ang Pilipinas sa kasunduan na hindi magsagawa ng torture at hindi papayag na maging instrumento ng torture.
Ngunit ito ang ginawa ng mga bata ni Gloria Arroyo. Walang imik si Arroyo at denedepensahan ng kanyang mga opisyal ang ginawa ng ISAFP.
Naging hayop na ang mga miyembro ng ating military.Ito ay nangyayari sa kagustuhan ni Gloria Arroyo na manatili sa kanyang ninakaw na kapangyarihan.
Hanep na ang kalagayan natin ngayon at palala na ang pag aabuso sa mga tao.Para lang may masabi silang kathang isip na may papatay kay Pandak ay huhulihin nila at pahihirapan ang mga kalaban at paaminin kahit hindi totoo. Akala siguro nila kapag may nasabi sila na may magtatanka kay Pandak ay maaawa ang taong bayan. Mali sila doon dahil kapag namatay si Pandak ay doon magiging maligaya ang bansa natin. Kung puwede lang siguro hulihin ang mga congresman at senador na lumalaban ay gagawin nitong mga private army ni reynang magnanakaw. Sabi ko sa inyo na wala na tayong pag asa sa mga naka uniporme maka sundalo or mapa pulis pa dahil iba na ang panahon ngayon sa ilalim ni Gluria Makapal Arrovo -Pidal pera ang pina tatapat sa mga Kawal. Mas masahol pa yata ito kay Marcos ang pinaggagawa nitong mag asawang ARROVO.
Sa mga NPA ano pa ang ginagawa ninyo >> KA Rosal mahilig ka lang sa RADIO at ito ang tamang panahon na ipakita ninyo ang pinaglalaban ninyo. Puro na lang mahihirap ang kinakana ninyo at kinakaltasan ng pera or TAX. MAy Man Power kayo pero bahag rin pala ang buntot ninyo. Tulungan ninyo ang kababayan ninyo na patuloy na lumulubog sa kahirapan dahil sa pekeng presidente at Magnanakaw.
kaya ko nasabi ito at dahil wala na kaming makuhang tulong sa mga sundalo at kapulisan.
Hi Ellen,
Maiba ko ng konti ang topic dito.
Nagpalabas na ang US na ipamahagi ang kayamanan ni MArcos sa mga nabiktima. $35 millliooonnnnnssss iyan at Dollars pa.
SIGURO MAPUPUNTA LANG KAY REYNANG ENKANDATA DONYA GLURIA MAKAPAL IYAN AT SA MGA KOTONGRESS DAHIL SILA YATA ANG INAPI NI MARCOS NOON DIBA… DIBA… DIBA.. IYONG $100 MILLIONS FERTILIZER FUNDS NA GALING RIN KAY MARCOS AY SA KANILA NAPUNTA ITO PANG $35 MILLIONS… HINDI NA MAKATULOG SI GLURIA NIYAN AT PINAG IISIPAN NA NILA KUNG PAPAANO MAKUKUHA ANG DOLLARS. SILA ANG NABIKTIMA NOON AT HINDI ANG MAHIHIRAP NA TAO KAYA SA KANILA MAPUPUNTA ANG PERA. KAYA ANG BANSA NATIN AY BALIKTAD NA DIBA. ANG MALI AY TAMA AT ANG TAMA AY MALI.
MAWAWALA NA LANG BASTA BASTA ANG PERA LALO NA MAY KASO NA ISASAMPA ANG MGA KALABAN AT TITIBA NA NAMAN ANG MGA HINAYUPAK NA “PUT.. I….NANG MGA KOTONGRESS. BILIHAN NA NAMAN NG BOTO ITO…..
DAPAT AY ILISTA AT IPAKITA SA TAONG BAYAN ANG BAWAT GASTOS KUNG SAAN NAPUNTA ANG PERA NA MAKUKUHA KAY MARCOS. LAHAT AY KAILANGAN MAY PIRMA AT KASULATAN KUNG KANINO OR SINO ANG KANILANG PAG BIBIGYAN…..
NAG IISIP NA SI KOTONGRESS NOGRARES KUNG ANONG HIRAP ANG DINANAS NIYA KAY MARCOS NOON PARA MAKA KUHA NG PERA…. NGAYON AY ABALA RIN SI KOTONGRESS MAGSASAY KUNG PAPAANO IPA BID ANG PRESYO NIYA NGAYON SECOND IMPEACHMENT.
PAANO KAYA MAPUPUNTA ITONG PERA NA DAPAT MAPUNTA SA MGA NABIKTIMA NOON. SINO NA NAMAN NAKA UPO OR SEC. NG GOBYERNO ANG TATAKBO SA IBANG BANSA PARA MAG TAGO KAPAG NABUKING ANG PAGNANAKAW.
ALAM NAMAN NINYO DIYAN SILA MAGALING..
Sigurado yon. Ano ba ang ginagawa ni Abcede sa PCGG kung hidi niya masigurado na mahahawakan ni reyna engkantada ang perang binuwisan ng dugo ng maraming aktibista noong martial law?
ELLEN,
IYAN ANG KINAKATAKUTAN KO NGAYON DAHIL MAYROON NA NAMAN SILANG PAGKUKUHANAN NG PERA NG BAYAN. SO, DELIKADO ANG MAGSASAMPA NG KASO KAY REYNA ENKANTADA. NAG LALAKIHAN NA NAMAN ANG MGA MATA NG MGA KOTONGRESS NGAYON.
SI KOTONGRESS MAGSAYSAY AY NAG IISIP NA SIGURADO IYAN AT SAYANG DAHIL ANG PAMILYANG MAGSAYSAY AY GINAGALANG. SA GINAWA NIYA AY NAWALA ANG “SAYSAY” ANG PAMILYANG “MAGSAYSAY”.
KUNG SI ABCEDE ANG HEAD NG PCGG NA NAKIPAG SAYAW KAY IMELDA SA PARTY.. KUNG SIYA IYUN AY DELIKADO NGA ANG PERA PARA SA MGA TOTOONG NABIKTIMA NOON SA MARTIAL LAW. SAAN KAYA SIYA MAGTATAGO KAPAG NAGKABUKUHAN NA.
SANA SA MGA CONGRESSMAN/WOMAN AT SA MGA SENATOR NA MAYROON MALILINIS NA PAG KATAO AY GUMAWA KAYO NG LAW PARA LAHAT NG PERA NG BAYAN AY NA IPAPA PUBLIKO AT PARA MALAMAN KUNG SAAN NAPUPUNTA ANG PERA. HINDI KATULAD NG NANGYARI SA FERTILIZER FUNDS NA PARA SA MAGSASAKA NA NAPUNTA SA MGA KOTONGRESS AT GOVERNOR NA ANG LUNDSOD NILA AY WALA NAMAN SAKAHAN OR BUKID LIKES NG MAKATI, MANILA AT PASAY ETC…
well, what can i say? it’s as if we’re in a time warp. seems like we’ve gone back to the martial law era — people being abducted, detained, tortured and assasinated for political reasons. their message: IF YOU’RE NOT WITH US, THEN YOU’RE AGAINST US!
I think this is one subject we have to talk about “torture”. Isn’t the Philippines a signaturee to the U.N. convention against Torture for political or any reason? Correct me if I’m wrong, but torture as a mean of extracting testemonies, true or false is still common practice among the Police or Military authorities? If this true, then what are the opposition doing about it? The Media? Shall we just keep our silence, and pretend it’s not happening, until the day it comes upon us or our love ones?
you are right, vic. I’m writing about it for malaya tomorrow.
And I just read in INQ 7 about senator Roxas raising the issue about the Shadow Government, but I would kindly ask the good senator, since he has the power and authority to do something about it, to either correct it, or bring this to the attention of the senate, if he is going to do these or just stop at just raising the issue and leave it at that.
They (senators and congressmen/women)are the people who were elected by the poeple to deal with these issues, but the way I see it, they just talk about them and forget them, and talk about them again when same happen again & again. thanks for doing something about it Ellen..
You are right about mar roxas, vic. his press officer should stop issuing press releases that his principal does not believe in or not interested in talking about.
When the People’s Initiative was launched few months back, his office was the first one to issue a press release denouncing the initiative. We invited him (i’m editorial consultant of “Strictly Politics” hosted by Pia Hontiveros on ANC) to join the panel we have assembled for that topic. His office said he was not available. After the first statement, nothing was heared of him.
when i saw the news item today about him expressing alarm over human rights abuses, my reaction was, here we go again.
Sorry about mar roxas. he may not be corrupt but i find him spineless.
Bu then,let’s just let mar roxas be. he is not the issue here. it’s gloria arroyo.
I’m just wondering too what my classmate Pia Cayetano has to say. She’s been very quiet through all these scandals. It’s Allan Peter who’s been very vocal. I think another classmate is working in the palace, Gboy S.
Ako lang yata sa batch namin ang lumabas na radical. I would just like to remind my good classmates that its for the good of the country you chose to become public servants.
I hope you wouldn’t sit idly by while our Philippines is mercilessly shredded by these pack of “wolves in sheep’s clothing”.
Ellen, agree with you that gloria arroyo and her administration is the issue and the only issue here. She is the BIG fish so to say. But how could you get to that “hungry shark” when all the people (the opposition, the senators, the congressmen/women, the military and police) are dancing protecting and even the supposedly “shark killer” among them suddenly have their spines removed for a “price”. And we, the small fries, nothing short of bloody uprising and throwing all our bodies all at once to that Shark are left to the impossible, only to be swallowed to satisfy all their lusting.. I’d rather see them attack..
Hi, Ellen:
One thing that my friends and I can do here is translate your article into Japanese, and distribute it to the Japanese media, members of NGO’s critical of Japan’s ODA’s to corrupt governments, and to members of the Japanese Diet, especially those in charge of Philippine-Japan relationship even just to counter the publicity stunts of the lobby group hired by the Midget and being paid with blood money of the OFWs in particular, and reason for the exorbitant fees Filipinos here pay for their passports, etc., not to mention the money extorted by recruiters and the DoLE, which should have paid them instead for the sacrifices they do for their country, people and families.
Some 30 or 40 years ago, Japan embarked, too, in finding greener pastures for impoverished Japanese like those sent to far-away Brazil, but instead of fleecing them, the government even paid for their fares, and gave them stipends to be able to start right in the jungles of the Amazon. Now, the government are getting back a lot many of their children born and reared overseas to work in Japan.
In the case of the Philippines, even after more than 30 years, Filipinos are still being shooed away from their country and told to stay offshore. Worse is when this government will not even try to look for better jobs for Filipinos than domestic helping and/or hostessing in bars and clubs overseas, but even boast of jobs that soon will no longer be available to Filipinos as as a matter of fact because of new immigration laws being adopted by countries like the USA, Netherlands, Japan, etc. to stop human trafficking that the Midget’s government is engaged in.
Vonjovi:
Huwag ka nang umasa sa mga NPA. Nauubos na rin sila, at saka wala na rin silang masyadong pera gawa nang ginagawang pang-iipit ng pera nila sa Pilipinas pati na sa ibang bansa. Iyan ang dahilan sa palagay ko kung bakit hindi sila makakilos.
I’d rather admonish all concerned Filipinos to pray for divine intervention the way one or two of the Midget’s lackeys have been removed by natural causes—heart attack, etc.!!!
Sa isang banda, maybe, Filipinos need some more chastising before the Lord Above hear their prayers.
The longer the Midget stays, the more Filipinos get disgruntled and determined to remove not just her but all those crooks who have made life so miserable to Filipinos that a lot many of them would rather stay in prisons like those of Japan than go home!!! Ang tindi, di ba?
Thanks, Yuko.
Hi Ellen, hi Everybody,
The situation in the Philippines is becoming more alarming.
In a matter of 1 week, human rights abuses were committed – 1 journalist killed in Palawan, 5 Erap supporters abducted and tortured and 24 hours ago, another militant was murdered in Laguna.
And what have our justice department done about these? NOTHING…
What has our defence department done about the AFP abuse? NOTHING…
What have their president and dictator in waiting done about all these killings? NOTHING…
Our country is gearing – not towards Martial Law – but towards a law infinitely worse: ANARCHY.
Gloria, who is about to sell 100,000 Pinoy souls in exchange for tens more of millions of dollars to keep her government afloat, is being feted left right and center by a cotillon of supporters who see in her and servng her as the fulfillment of their ambitions – MONEY & POWER!
What has happened to the decent people in our land? Have they been exported too by this PUNGGOK who boasts of turning the Philippines into an enchanted kingdom of the wicked, by the wicked and for the wicked?
Ellen,
As if the very alarming state of affairs is not enough, Secretary Nonong Cruz, the lawyer that he is keen to sign a DEFENCE (SOFA) treaty with Australia that will allow Australia to establish Australian military bases in the Philippines.
What is this guy doing? The SOFA is NOT merely a Visiting Forces Agreement. It is a foreign military bases establishment contract! Stupid Cruz doesn’t know what he is doing – bah! A lawyer he is alright but an idiotic, moronic lawyer!
The SOFA is usually an integral part of the overall military bases agreement that allows a foreign military forces to operate within the host country.
What an idiot that Avelino Cruz is! What kind of defence secretary is he? I feel like kicking him in the teeth!
Gloria is into human traficking while her secretary of national defence is going on the offensive willing to sell Philippine sovereignity to look good, feel good and seem good to foreign would-be masters.
To make matters infinitely worse, Angie Reyes of DENR is prepared to sign back to back contracts with Aussie mining companies to dig up the Philippines using Pinoys as slave labor.
What is this corrupt, inept, abusive government of Punggok think they are doing?
I’d rather we partitioned the Philippines NOW than sell it off piece by piece!
Ellen,
Sabi ni Gabriel Claudio ng Malacañang, “We leave that to the military, which should be given every chance to explain the circumstances, basis and reasons for the arrest and detention of the five Estrada supporters.”
So, kung ganun dapat huwag nilang pigilan ang Senado na imbistigahan ng husto ang insidenteng ito. And it should not be in an executive session dahil may karapatan ang taong bayan na malaman ang tama at maling paraan ng pag-aresto! Dahil baka pagdating ng araw ay isa sa atin ang mabiktima ng ganitong karahasan ng mga pulis at militar!
At importanteng malaman kung sino ang nag-utos sa pagkidnap-arrest ng Erap5. Imposibleng hindi alam ng AFP leadership ang order of kidnap/arrest na ito. NAKAKATAKOT NA ANG ATING AFP/PNP. THEY HAVE BECOME BARBARIC MONSTERS!!!!
Cruz said there’s a process to be followed in the investigation of MIG-15 agents. Now they are talking of process! Did those agents think of process when they picked up those 5 without warrant of arrests and tortured them?
Ellen,
Cruz said that? Well, maybe, he can recommend another fact-finding body chaired by the AFP Inspector General whose findings later on will not be released. Instead it will be buried in the depths of voluminous unsolved cases handled by Malacanang just like the Mayuga report!
Torture? Gloria is immitating Bush! Pretty soon, she will have a torture camp (pretty much like the Abu Ghandang prison camp) somewhere to punish anti-Gloria militants.
These are the “patriots” who continue dismantle our country. The very people who’s tasked to uphold the rule of law and protect our rights. This administration is indeed a gang of greedy and power-hungry lazy pigs. Content with selling off the country we so love than fight for every Filipino. They sell our citizens to be enslaved in foreign lands, and now sell our lands to to other countries. No wonder they want to lift foreign ownership of lands and business. And we all thought that we have freed ourselves from the bondage of slavery.
When we finally kick these scoundrels out of office, the new government should prosecute these maggots for treason and have the masses decide what punishment we should give them. Let’s forget about being humane because they don’t deserve to be called humans.
I admire the reasoning of both Ver Eustaquio and Dennis Evona in one of the Sunday afternoon Talk Show of ANC. Their abductions, their sufferings and everything is pointing to Nano and his henchmen.
There are still lots of military officers and men who value the rights of the citizenry and uphold the rule of law. The exceptions are the military officers close to the Nano and the Fat Guy. These are the traitors of the 80 million Filipinos.
Ruben Dionisio’s body is blue and black when got the chance to the media and relate his sufferings under the military custodianship. Raul Gonzales and Gabriel Claudio can not see the marks of torture! I don’t know what kind of eyes they have!
Emilio,
I agree that there are lots and lots of military officers who value the rights of the citizenry.
Unfortunately, their number is offset by a few really bad ones.
Our nation has more than 80 million souls majority of whom, most likely, have a sense of moral values, yet it takes one midget – just one midget – who is immoral to bring down the country to her dishonorable size. This one, unique presidency grabbing punggok is so dishonorable and so putridly rotten that she contaminates the ones who could have been otherwise.
Anna,
I agree with you 100%. The credibility of the military and police organization is at it’s lowest ebb since the martial law years. They are now the hoodlums in military uniforms with the stars, the flowers and the diamonds on their shoulders!
Principled military officers who are not in the loop are living their lives in modest means. I do hope that they will hold to their principles and will not sell their souls to the devil!
Nano’s virus has destroyed the moral fiber of the Filipino’s value and I do hope and pray (really praying hard) that this must end soon!
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Salamat,
Isang nagmamalasakit .