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* EN BANC.
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BRION, J.:
We review in this petition for review on certiorari1
the decision dated March 7, 2008 of the Court of
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Appeals (CA)
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“x x x x
7. Soon after the student left the room, Engr. Tagitis
went out of the pension house to take his early lunch but
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“x x x x
4. a) On November 5, 2007, the Regional Director, Police
Regional Office ARMM submitted a report on the alleged
disappearance of one Engr. Morced Tagitis. According to the
said report, the victim checked-in at ASY Pension House on
October 30, 2007 at about 6:00 in the morning and then
roamed around Jolo, Sulu with an unidentified companion. It
was only after a few days when the said victim did not return
that the matter was reported to Jolo MPS. Afterwards,
elements of Sulu PPO conducted a thorough investigation to
trace and locate the whereabouts of the said missing person,
but to no avail. The said PPO is still conducting investigation
that will lead to the immediate findings of the whereabouts
of the person.
b) Likewise, the Regional Chief, 9RCIDU submitted a
Progress Report to the Director, CIDG. The said report
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“x x x x
That immediately upon receipt on December 29, 2007 of
the Resolution of the Honorable Special Fourth Division of
the Court of Appeals, I immediately directed the
Investigation Division of this Group [CIDG] to conduct
urgent investigation on the alleged enforced disappearance of
Engineer Morced Tagitis.
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“x x x x
That, I and our men and women in PACER vehemently
deny any participation in the alleged abduction or illegally
[sic] detention of ENGR. MORCED N. TAGITIS on October
30, 2007. As a matter of fact, nowhere in the writ was
mentioned that the alleged abduction was perpetrated by
elements of PACER nor was there any indication that the
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“x x x x
3) For the record:
I am the Regional Director of Police Regional Office
ARMM now and during the time of the incident;
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4. It is my duty to look into and take appropriate
measures on any cases of reported enforced disappearances
and when they are being alluded to my office;
5. On November 5, 2007, the Provincial Director of Sulu
Police Provincial Office reported to me through Radio
Message Cite No. SPNP3-1105-07-2007 that on November 4,
2007 at around 3:30 p.m., a certain Abdulnasser Matli, an
employee of Islamic Development Bank, appeared before the
Office of the Chief of Police, Jolo Police Station, and reported
the disappearance of Engr. Morced Tagitis, scholarship
coordinator of Islamic Development Bank, Manila;
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25 Id.
26 Id., at pp. 80-81.
27 Annex “L”; Rollo, pp. 347.
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36 Id., at p. 33.
37 Id., at pp. 47-44; Rollo, pp. 772-773. Col. Ancanan later
executed an affidavit dated January 30, 2008 contradicting the
respondent’s allegations. The pertinent portions of the affidavit
state:
3. That, mid of November 2007, Mrs. Tagitis of Davao
City appeared before our office and asked for help/assistance
in locating her husband allegedly missing since November 4,
2007 in Jolo, Sulu;
4. That, I told her that her problem was purely a police
matter which does not fall under our mandate but that
nonetheless I was willing to extend my help;
5. That during our conversation, I asked her to provide
me with some documents/information for purposes of back
tracking/tracing the possible personalities whom her husband
supposedly met in Jolo before he was reported missing.
However, this did not materialize because Mrs. Tagitis was
hesitant to produce said documents/information for an
unknown reason;
6. That during the Joint Reward Valuation conference
(JRVC) on January 29, 2008, I was astonished when PS SUPT
JOSE VOLPANE PANTE, Regional Chief 9RCIDU, informed
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me that accordingly (sic) I was the one who told Mrs. Tagitis
that her husband was in the custody of the 9RCIDU;
7. That in the course of my conversation with Mrs.
Tagitis, I never told her or made mention of any word to that
effect implicating the CIDG personnel particularly members
of
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64 Id., at p. 70.
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The CA Ruling
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65 Id., at p. 85.
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66 Id., at p. 88.
67 Sworn Affidavit of Col. Pante dated February 6, 2008; Rollo, p.
775.
68 Id.
69 TSN, February 11, 2008, p. 99.
70 Supra note 66.
71 Supra note 2.
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The Petition
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77 Supra note 9.
78 The Rule on the Writ of Amparo: Annotation, p. 52.
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7. Soon after the student left the room, Engr. Tagitis
went out of the pension house to take his early lunch but
while out on the street, a couple of burly men believed to be
police intelligence operatives, forcibly took him and boarded
the latter on a motor vehicle then sped away without the
knowledge of his student, Arsimin Kunnong;
xxxx
10. When Kunnong could not locate Engr. Tagitis, the
former sought the help of another IDB scholar and reported
the matter to the local police agency;
11. Arsimin Kunnong, including his friends and
companions in Jolo, exerted efforts in trying to locate the
whereabouts of Engr. Tagitis and when he reported the
matter to the police authorities in Jolo, he was immediately
given a ready answer that Engr. Tagitis could [have been]
abducted by the Abu Sayyaf group and other groups known
to be fighting against the government;
12. Being scared with these suggestions and insinuations
of the police officers, Kunnong reported the matter to the
[respondent](wife of Engr. Tagitis) by phone and other
responsible officers and coordinators of the IDB Scholarship
Programme in the Philippines who alerted the office of the
Governor of ARMM who was then preparing to attend the
OIC meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia;
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15. According to reliable information received by the
[respondent], subject Engr. Tagitis is in the custody of police
intelligence operatives, specifically with the CIDG, PNP
Zamboanga City, being held against his will in an earnest
attempt of the police to involve and connect Engr. Tagitis
with the different terrorist groups;
xxxx
17. [The respondent] filed her complaint with the PNP
Police Station at the ARMM in Cotobato and in Jolo, as
suggested by her friends, seeking their help to find her
husband, but [the respondent’s] request and pleadings failed
to produce any positive results;
xxxx
20. Lately, [respondent] was again advised by one of the
[petitioners] to go to the ARMM Police Headquarters again
in Cotobato City and also to the different Police
Headquarters including the police headquarters in Davao
City, in Zamboanga City, in Jolo, and in Camp Crame,
Quezon City, and all these places have been visited by the
[respondent] in search for her husband, which entailed
expenses for her trips to these places thereby resorting her to
borrowings and beggings [sic] for financial help from friends
and relatives only to try complying to the different
suggestions of these police officers, despite of which, her
efforts produced no positive results up to the present time;
xxxx
25. [The respondent] has exhausted all administrative
avenues and remedies but to no avail, and under the circum-
stances, [respondent] has no other plain, speedy and
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89 Id.
90 Id., at pp. 14-15.
91 Established by resolution 20 (XXXVI) of 29 February 1980 of
the Commission on Human Rights, the Working Group on Enforced
or Involuntary Disappearances was created with the basic mandate
to assist relatives to ascertain the fate and whereabouts of their
disappeared family members. The Working Group examines the
reports of disappearances received from relatives of disappeared
persons or human rights organizations acting on their behalf and
transmits individual cases to the Governments concerned requesting
them to carry out investigations and inform the Working Group of
the results. See Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, Office of
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the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Fact Sheet No.
6/Rev.3, pp. 9-10 (2009), available at http://www.
unhcr.org/refworld/category,REFERENCE,OHCHR,THEMREPORT,4794774bd,0.html
(last visited November 12, 2009).
665
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95 Id.
96 See House Bill No. 00326 entitled, An Act Defining and
Penalizing Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance and for Other
Purposes, filed by Representative Edcel Lagman on July 2, 2007 and
House Bill 2263 entitled, An Act Defining and Penalizing the Crime
of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance filed by Representative
Satur Ocampo et al.
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97 See Senate Bill No. 1307 entitled, An Act Defining and
Penalizing Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance and for Other
Purposes, filed by Senator Francis Escudero on July 24, 2007 and
Senate Bill No. 2107 entitled, Enforced or Involuntary
Disappearance Act of 2008, filed by Senator Miriam Defensor
Santiago on March 4, 2008.
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rected against any civilian population, with knowledge of the attack: .xxx(i)
Enforced disappearance of persons.”
680
Article 2
3. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes:
(a) To ensure that any person whose rights or freedoms
as herein recognized are violated shall have an effective
remedy, notwithstanding that the violation has been
committed by persons acting in an official capacity;
(b) To ensure that any person claiming such a
remedy shall have his right thereto determined by
competent judicial, administrative or legislative
authorities, or by any other competent authority provided
for by the legal system of the State, and to develop the
possibilities of judicial remedy;
(c) To ensure that the competent authorities shall
enforce such remedies when granted.” [Emphasis supplied]
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We find no direct evidence indicating how the victim
actually disappeared. The direct evidence at hand only
shows that Tagitis went out of the ASY Pension House
after de-
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, 695
positing his room key with the hotel desk and was
never seen nor heard of again. The undisputed
conclusion, however, from all concerned—the
petitioner, Tagitis’ colleagues and even the police
authorities—is that Tagistis disappeared under
mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.
The respondent injected the causal element in her
petition and testimony, as we shall discuss below.
We likewise find no direct evidence showing that
operatives of PNP CIDG Zamboanga abducted or
arrested Tagitis. If at all, only the respondent’s
allegation that Tagitis was under CIDG Zamboanga
custody stands on record, but it is not supported by any
other evidence, direct or circumstantial.
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Q: Were you informed as to the place where he was being kept
during that time?
A: He did not tell us where he [Tagitis] was being kept.
But he mentioned this Talipapao, Sulu, sir.
Q: After that incident, what did you do if any?
A: We just left and as I’ve mentioned, we just waited because
that raw information that he was reading to us [sic] after the
custodial investigation, Engineer Tagitis will be released.
[Emphasis supplied]166
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, 701
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, 705
707
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, 709
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, 711
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