Worse Feared for Missing Farmers Abducted by Alleged Military Assets

From the Negros Daily Bulletin (Apr 22): Worse Feared for Missing Farmers Abducted by Alleged Military Assets

A farmer who went missing after having been abducted by alleged informers or assets of the 47th IB, which is operating in Southern Negros, has remained unaccounted up to this date, his common-law wife and farmer-colleagues told NNF/NDB in an interview yesterday.

Still missing and unaccounted for and believed to have been secretly detained by units of the 47th IB was Benny Lubrico Catipan of Bunsad Subvillage, Buena-vista Village, Himamaylan City. The subvillage is located in a mountainous area of the city, his common-law wife, Charisse Duran, told fellow farmer-members.

That day at about 8:00 a.m. two men known as military informers named Moco de la Cruz and Boboy Talapa paid the family a visit with the intent of convincing Catipan to surrender because he was presumably a member of the rebel New People’s Army (NPA), but Benny denied he was a member of the guerilla group and about noontime the two military informers took him along with them. Until now he has not been found with friends and relatives fearing the worse for him. His wife surmised that the incident on April 13, could be linked to another one where the two men the military assets also visited them, last January 28.

The family of the missing farmer has sought succor from a farmer’s non-goverment organization and have asked it to help them in locating their missing kin.

But they fear the worse has befallen him, Catipan, and are seeking the help of the farmer’s partylist group, KMP.

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