Torture victim Melissa Roxas: ‘Talking about it is like going back to that dark place’

Torture victim Melissa Roxas: ‘Talking about it is like going back to that dark place’

By RONALYN V. OLEA
Human Rights Watch
Bulatlat

MANILA — Filipino-American Melissa Roxas finally broke her silence and recounted her ordeal in the hands of the military.

Roxas and her two companions, Juanito Carabeo and John Edward Jandoc, were abducted in the afternoon of May 19 in sitio Bagong Sikat, barangay Kapanikian, La Paz town, in Tarlac, a province just north of Manila.

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