Coping with a Desaparecido
By Estan Cabigas
Abner Hizarsa is 55 years old with a heart ailment. At noon of 22 March 07, his daughter Shara waited for her father for her school day's baon.
He never came.
A vital witness said that Abner, on his way to his daughter's school, was forced into a waiting white van infront of a store at the highway near his house in Subic, Zambales and sped away. Unfortunately, the witness, an old man, died.
There are still no news of his whereabouts. The legal process has yet to move. But his family is still hoping that one day he will come back to be with them again.
This is their story of coping with a desaparecido.