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Where are our students?

Posted by: Sheila Coronel | July 16, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Filed under: In the News

THE University Council of the University of Philippines at Diliman, the academic body composed of faculty members, has expressed concern about the government’s inaction on the disappearance of two UP students, Karen Empeno and Sherlyn Cadapan.

The two undergraduates were doing research in Hagonoy,Bulacan when they were abducted by rifle-wielding men on June 26. The University Council said that UP President Emerlinda Roman had already written Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno and Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz requesting assistance to find the students, one of whom was pregnant. But up to now, UP has not received any indications of what happened to them.

The University Council demanded that the two officials immediately furnish information on the students’ whereabouts.

“We are greatly concerned that they may be victims of the wave of extra-judicial executions and forced disappearances associated with the elements of the security and defense establishments” said the Council’s July 12 resolution. “Indeed, we fear for their lives.”

It added: “We would like to emphasize that whatever the motives and circumstances behind it and whether it is carried out by private persons or by persons connected with government, abduction is always illegal and punishable by law, aside from being a violation of the victim’s human rights.”

Below is the full text of the resolution:

The University Council expresses great concern that government authorities have not yet produced indications of the whereabouts of two UP Diliman undergraduate students Ms. Karen Empeño of the Sociology Department of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy and Ms. Sherlyn Cadapan of the College of Human Kinetics.

It is now 10 days since President Emerlinda R. Román wrote a letter to Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno and to Department of National Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz Jr. requesting assistance in locating the two students. In the letter, President Román described the circumstances attending the abduction of the two students: “According to raw reports reaching my office, six or more masked armed men forcibly took them at about 2 in the morning of Monday, June 26, 2006, in Purok 6, Barangay San Miguel, Hagonoy, Bulacan. The masked armed men were using long guns and apparently did not show any court order for their physical detention. We were also informed that Karen was asked to remove her shirt. They used this shirt to blindfold her. Sherlyn is pregnant. The women were then forced into a vehicle that proceeded in the direction of Iba, Hagonoy.”

We would like to emphasize that whatever the motives and circumstances behind it and whether it is carried out by private persons or by persons connected with government, abduction is always illegal and punishable by law, aside from being a violation of the victim’s human rights.

We are greatly concerned that they may be victims of the wave of extra-judicial executions and forced disappearances associated with elements of the security and defense establishments. Indeed, we fear for their lives.

We would therefore wish to strongly support and reiterate President Román’s request to Secretary Puno and other government authorities that they immediately furnish us with information of the whereabouts of Ms. Empeño and Ms. Cadapan, provide them with medical and legal assistance, and release them to the care of the University as soon as possible. We consider the continuing silence of the authorities in this matter of life and death to be inexcusable and a betrayal of the public trust.

In conclusion, we would like to repeat President Román’s words to Secretaries Puno and Cruz: “We know that you share with us a commitment to the spirit of the UN General Assembly’s ‘Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance’ (Resolution 47/133 of December 18, 1992). We also know that the acts done by masked armed men are criminally punishable under our laws. Most of all, as parents committed to teaching the virtues of valuing human dignity, we are certain that you could address the matter with empathy.”

University Council, UP Diliman, July 12, 2006
96th Special Meeting

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as per gen. razon, kagagawan na naman ng mga npa yan.

jr_lad wrote on July 16, 2006 - 3:45 pm | Visit Link

the abduction is a cause of alarm, but what is more alarming is that, even in UP, some (or many?) students think empeño and cadapan deserved to be abducted.

read this forum: http://peyups.com/posts.khtml?mode=viewtopic&topic=27595&forum=1

the world has gone haywire.

stoxbnx3 wrote on July 16, 2006 - 7:59 pm | Visit Link

There is no justification for the abduction. Even the most corrupt are given their day in court, i.e. Hello garci, and Eraps plunder case. There is no more death penalty and yet the militay and police are given the go ahead to kill. Are enemies of the state defined as: those who don’t like GMA?

Palaweno wrote on July 16, 2006 - 9:10 pm | Visit Link

i visited the site. nowhere did i read the students(?) mentioned those two deserved to be abducted.1 or 2 cautioned not to readily point fingers but that’s all that was mentioned in there. we’re not even sure if they are students from UP (anyone can freely post his comment just like here in pcij). i don’t think decent persons will ever condone or wish harm to anyone. pray that the two are safe and in good hands.

jr_lad wrote on July 16, 2006 - 9:37 pm | Visit Link

It is a fact that 2 UP students are missing to date and they were abducted in Bulacan by armed men in combat uniform and witnesses saw the same vehicles used for abduction, parked in the military barracks. These people are unstopppable in committing crime against innocent civilians and yet when the time comes that they are made accountable, they use the DENIAL CARD and the blame-it-on-the-NPA CARD. Shame on you people in uniform. Youre the ones who got blood on your hands. Your patriotic duty is to defend and protect your countrymen and what are you doing?

Palaweno wrote on July 16, 2006 - 10:24 pm | Visit Link

If GMA is sincere in what she said in her speech, “to remove the fear of the citizens who want peace…” then why don’t she start removing Mayor Hagedorn of Puerto Princesa City and his ten thousand commando gang members, who have a long list of unsolved murder victims here, the instigator of crime and fear in Palawan? Why is she befriending him instead? Because she is using him and the PNP for her own purpose and that is to remove from the face of the earth those who want the truth to be known, those who love their motherland, those she wants to silence.

Palaweno wrote on July 16, 2006 - 10:40 pm | Visit Link

Abduction, Kidnaping, by anyone is a very serious criminal offense. The Police Authorities in Jurisdiction where the Act occurred should immediately investigate and provide a timely update of the progress, or the movement of their investigation to the family of the victim and to the public and to their political masters for appropriate decision and additional resources for resolution of the case.

The account of the Abduction of two U.P. undergraduates still demonstrates the state of our investigative process and the complexity of how this otherwise straightforward criminal investigation is brought to the point that nobody, not even the victims families know what’s going with the case. One can only wish that no such incident will ever happened to his or her own self or family.

On the other hand, if the abduction is the alleged handiwork of the military as most suspected, then what are the Opposition, the Media and the NGOs concerned doing about it? And if it is by the NPA, what all have to say about it? Everyone denying about it doesn’t cut it. Are we all just in state of Denial? The day the sky falls in our head, I hope the day we stop denying.

naykika wrote on July 17, 2006 - 1:47 am | Visit Link

jr_lad, visit the campus then.

stoxbnx3 wrote on July 17, 2006 - 12:55 pm | Visit Link

[...] The University Council of the University of the Philippines at Diliman, the academic body composed of faculty members, passed a resolution last July 12 expressing concern over the government’s inaction on the disappearance of the two. [...]

Ellen Tordesillas » Blog Archive » No safe place for Filipinos (even in the Philippines) wrote on July 19, 2006 - 12:36 am | Visit Link

[...] The disappearance of Empeno and Cadapan has alarmed the UP Diliman community. On July 12, the University Council issued a resolution, expressing “great concern” over what it said was government’s inaction about the disappearance. “We fear for their lives,” the Council said. [...]

INSIDE PCIJ » Kin of 2 missing UP studentsget relief from Supreme Court wrote on July 20, 2006 - 2:52 pm | Visit Link

“It is a fact that 2 UP students are missing to date and they were abducted in Bulacan by armed men in combat uniform and witnesses saw the same vehicles used for abduction, parked in the military barracks.”

Do you actually have any evidence to back that statement up? Because that really is worrying, although not particularly surprising.

Dandadandan wrote on August 22, 2006 - 5:44 pm | Visit Link

[...] Where are our students? [...]

Story with no end: Karen and Sherlyn « myepinOy’s bLOG wrote on July 13, 2007 - 10:01 pm | Visit Link