FACT SHEET

Name of Victim/s: Joe Gasmin, late 50’s; farmer

Libayan Gasmin,
7 children age 17-past 30; with 2 dependents

Ethnicity: Binongan

Violations: Internal Displacement

Date and Time of Incident: since March 11, 2014

Place of Incident:

Perpetrators: Members of the 41st IB of the AFP headed by Lt. Col. Domingo and 1st Lt.
Mark de los Santos

ORGANIZATIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Manapnap Farmers Association (MAFA)
Kakailian Salakniban Tay Amin a Nagtaudan, the provincial chapter of Cordillera
Peoples Alliance (CPA) in Abra.

Accounts of the Incident:

In the aftermath of the massacre of the Ligiw family, community leaders especially
those who had been working closely with the Ligiws have been subjects of harassment
and threats. Joe whom Fermin Ligiw slept on his house on March 2, days before the
massacre has been placed under intense threat. The military officers have publicly
been releasing pronouncements that in the event the military are implicated in the
killings, those associated with KASTAN will bear the reprisal. He frequently receives
text messages asking his whereabouts, or that he must report to the military for
investigation.

Since Joe has long been politically associated with progressive organizations and an
hr activist, the threat of the military is not to be taken for granted.

Joe, his wife and two young children left the community and sought refuge at the
office of KASTAN in Bangued, Abra. After being exposed of his presence in the
KASTAN office, he was brought to the office of the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance in
Baguio City. The wife and 2 children are left in the KASTAN office.

Joe Gasmin, after undergoing collective psychosical processing together with the
staff and volunteers of KASTAN, manifested signs of trauma. Further counselling is
adviced to assess his psychosocial state.
Because of the atmosphere of fear resonating in the community, the wife and
children of Gasmin are afraid to go back home as they will be the subjects of
harassment if not threat with the absence of Gasmin.

The family farm is now unattended.

Prepared by:

Rhoda Dalang
DINTEG
April 8, 2014