FOR 17 years, Edita Burgos has looked inside body bags, visited military camps, led street protests and filed court cases in a desperate search for her missing son Jonas.
He was 37 and a prominent activist for a left-wing farmers group when he was bundled by a group of unknown men into a vehicle at a Manila shopping mall in 2007.He has not been seen since. This photo, taken on Aug. 1, 2024, shows Edita Burgos, mother of missing activist Jonas Burgos, speaking as she sits next to a portrait of her vanished son.
'Whatever he was, no one has the right to kill somebody, not even a rapist,' Edita, 80, told Agence France-Presse ahead of the screening of 'Alipato at Muog' at the country's independent film festival Cinemalaya earlier this month.'You have to take them to court, not make them vanish.
Continues Search For Activist Son Abducted 17 Years Ago
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