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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
FOREWORD
MUGIYANTO
CHAIRPERSON, AFAD
INTRODUCTION
MARY AILEEN DIEZ BACALSO
SECRETARY GENERAL, AFAD
COUNTRY SITUATION:
CHINA
INDIA (JAMMU AND KASHMIR)
INDONESIA
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
PHILIPPINES
SRI LANKA
THAILAND
MUNIR’S CASE
AFAD’S RESPONSE
FEDEFAM’S LETTER
STATISTICS ON ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCE IN ASIA:
CHINA
INDIA (JAMMU AND KASHMIR)
INDONESIA
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
PHILIPPINES
SRI LANKA
THAILAND
EPILOGUE
AFAD’S THEME SONG, DESAPARECIDOS
INDEX
BOOK WRITERS
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Reclaiming Stolen Lives
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About the Writers:
Mugiyanto
The present Chairperson of AFAD, Mugiyanto, is
the founding Chairperson of IKOHI. He himself has been a
victim of involuntary disappearance when he was kept in secret
detention, during which he was physically and psychologically
tortured by the Kopassus immediately after the fall of
Suharto in 1998. Three months later, he was released.
Mary Aileen D. Bacalso
Mary Aileen Diez-Bacalso is currently the
Secretary-General of AFAD. Her most outstanding contribution to the
fight against impunity was her active participation in the
three-year drafting and negotiation process of the UN Convention for
the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. She is
presently taking her graduate studies in Philippine Studies major in
Foreign Relations in the University of the Philippines and is a
recipient of the Angara Scholarship Program.
Rosa Bella M. Quindoza
Rosa Bella Quindoza is a freelance writer for
non-government organizations in the Philippines. She is presently
finishing her graduate studies in Communication Research and is also
enrolled in elective courses in Asian Communication, Arts and
Philosophy in the University of the Philippines-Diliman.
Erlinda Timbreza-Valerio
Erlinda Timbreza-Valerio or Daisy as she has come
to be known in the human rights community in the Philippines lost
her husband Nilo Valerio, a desaparecido during the Marcos
dictatorship. The couple has two sons, Albert and Gerry, who were
barely three and four years old when their father disappeared in
1985. With writing as her favorite art and self-healing, she has
five solo books, three of which - We are your People (1990), The
Story I Will Tell My Children (1992) and Pilgrims (1995) are under
her pen name, Dahlia Castillejos.
Kopila Adhikari
A lawyer by profession, Kopila Adhikari leads the human rights
documentation unit of Advocacy Forum, one of Nepal’s leading
non-governmental organizations which has joined AFAD. She represents
her organization at the AFAD Council.
Dhiraj Kumar Pokhrel
A human rights advocate, Dhiraj Khumar Pokhrel works as focal
person of Advocacy Forum for AFAD.
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Emilia P. Aquino
Emilia Aquino is a dentist by profession with a long engagement in
the provision of direct health services to victims of human rights
violations such as political detainees, victims of demolitions in
urban-poor communities and workers on strike. She has worked as an
education officer and has given trainings on health and human rights
to health professionals and students. Emilia previously worked in
the Department of Health’s foreign-assisted Women’s Health and Safe
Motherhood Program focusing on training in reproductive health to
public health doctors and nurses.
Francis Q. Isaac
Francis Isaac is taking up his MA in Political Science at the
University of the Philippines-Diliman. He is presently doing a
research work on rural development. His favorite authors include
Louis Althusser, Leon Trotsky and JRR Tolkien.
Darwin B. Mendiola
Darwin Mendiola is currently the Research and Documentation
Officer of AFAD. He has worked in various non-government
organizations that engage the Philippine government in formulating
and implementing policy reforms and institutional change. Darwin is
a former media liaison officer of the Laban ng Masa (Struggle
of the Masses), a new Philippines Left Coalition under the
leadership of ex-UP President, Dr. Francisco Nemenso, Jr. As a
former student leader in the Polytechnic University of the
Philippines in the early 1990s, he remains an activist in his own
right.
Chang Chui
Chang Chiu is a Jakarta-based, American advisor and writer on
political, economic, and human rights issues. An attorney by
training, Chang graduated from the University of Virginia School of
Law and received a masters in international relations from the Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He finished his AB
Politics and East Asian Studies, Magna Cum Laude in Princeton, New
Jersey. He can be reached at chang.chiu@gmail.com.
Santiago Corcuera
A lawyer who specializes in International Law for Human Rights,
Santiago Corcuera is the current Chairperson of the United Nations
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the third
Mexican to take the mandate upon his shoulders.
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Other members of the Book Committee:
Edward M. Gerlock, Editor
Edward M. Gerlock is the Advocacy Officer of the Coalition of
Services of the Elderly (COSE) and has been working with older
people for 19 years. He arrived in the Philippines in 1962, is
married to a Filipina, Mercedes Verzosa, and has two children.
Edsil V. Bacalso, Layout Artist
Edsil Bacalso is the Program Officer of the Institute for Political
and Electoral Reforms (IPER). Himself a victim of enforced
disappearance during the late eighties, he experienced psychological
and physical torture from the hands of his captors. He was released
when his co-disappeared escaped after three months in secret
detention.
Maria Cristina T. Nabaunag, Proofreader and Indexer
Before her appointment as the head of the Acquisitions Section
of the Rizal Library, Ateneo de Manila University, Tina was an
indexer for the Computerized Index to Philippine Periodical Articles
(CIPPA). As part of the Indexing Pool, her exposure to current
events highlighted in multi-disciplinary journals, magazines, and
other serial publications made her even keener on the cause of human
rights groups and social transformation in general. A librarian by
profession, she topped the Licensure Examination for Librarians in
2006.
Candy May T. Nabaunag, Researcher
Previously working as an academic librarian for major
universities in Baguio City, Candy opted to extend her horizons and
shifted to NGO work. Her knowledge of the library profession is now
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