International Solidarity Mission Initial Report on James Balao

International Solidarity Mission Initial Report on James Balao

Background

On September 17, 2008 James Balao, a founding member of the Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) and the President of the Oclupan Clan Association, was abducted while in transit between Baguio City and La Trinidad, Benguet. On September 20, 2008 the CPA distributed an Urgent Alert to it’s national and international partners to inform them of the disappearance

On September 23, 2008 the CPA, along with the Cordillera Human Rights Alliance (CHRA) and the Balao family indicated their suspicion that Balao had been the victim of a state perpetrated enforced disappearance in their report “Surface James M. Balao Now”
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