Guevarra addressed her appeal specifically to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID). She said the body should keep open the 625 cases and investigate others that have not been reported to the body. This move of delisting desaparecidos is a malicious scheme to hide its own crimes of disappearances and impunity,” Guevarra explained. “Despite the passage of the Anti-Enforced Disappearance Law, not a single state agent has been convicted and punished for carrying out enforced disappearances. The group said Palparan has yet to be punished under Republic Act 10353 or the Anti-Enforced Disappearance Law.

Source: Philippine Star February 20, 2019 01:04 UTC