Where is Jonas?

Posted by karlom87 on August 2, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Disregarding a Supreme Court Order, the military deliberately failed to present the missing activist Jonas Burgos at an hearing of the Court of Appeals yesterday. Earlier, officials of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced exactly what they just did:

“We will appear before the court and we will respectfully reiterate our earlier statement that Jonas Burgos is not in our custody and that we are not aware of his whereabouts,” AFP information chief Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro told reporters…”

I think this is completely misleading. Contrary to the AFP information chief’s statements, the military has not been ignorant of Jonas’ whereabouts.

I mean, was it not an AFP general himself who categorically stated that Jonas was a member of the communist-l

ed New People’s Army? The official, Lt. gen. Romeo Tolentino, who spoke like a longtime buddy of Jonas, was even quoted by the Inquirer saying “Kasi parang masalimuot ang buhay niyan e, masalimuot (trans. His life seems really complicated).”

Now how’s that for not knowing Jonas’ whereabouts?

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