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Philippines: American Activist 'Abducted, Tortured' by Military
By: bulatlat
Posted: Jun 4 09
Witnessed: 1783 veces
Regions: Philippines
Issues: Arbitrary arrest, Forced disappearances, Justice, Torture, Violence
In this Bulatlat.com video report, human-rights advocates narrate the ordeal of Filipino-American activist Melissa Roxas and her two companions.
“I thought I was going to die there and then,” Melissa states in her affidavit. “They held my feet and my hands down and doubled-up plastic bags were pulled down on my head and face and closed on my neck and I started to suffocate and I could not breathe anymore and I was seeing white and thinking I was going to die.
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