Activist's military abduction claim rejected.Byline: Gilbert Felongco, Correspondent Aa Manila: Two right wing legislators yesterday challenged allegations made by an American-Filipino activist that she was abducted abducted Distal angulation of an extremity away from the midline of the body in a transverse plane and away from a sagittal plane passing through the proximal aspect of the foot or part, or away from some other specified reference point and tortured by the military in May. Representative Jovito Palparan and Pastor Alcover, respectively of the party-list groups Bantay and ANAD ANAD Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders ANAD National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders ANAD Anniston Army Depot ANAD Asociación Nacional de Abogados Democráticos (National Association of Democratic Lawyers, Mexico) , said there is no truth in allegations made by activist-cum-performing artist Melissa Roxas that she was abducted by members of the military. On the contrary, they said, it was her comrades in the New People's Army Noun 1. New People's Army - a terrorist organization that is the militant wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines; a Maoist organization formed to overthrow the government; uses hit squads called Sparrow Units; opposes United States military presence in the (NPA (1) (Numbering Plan Area) The Bellcore/Telcordia telephone area code system in use in the U.S., Canada, Alaska, Hawaii and islands in the Caribbean. See NPA code. (2) (Network Professional Association, San Diego, CA, www.npanet. ), who kidnapped her and made it appear that government soldiers took her. During a press briefing, Palparan, a former general who had been blamed for involuntary disappearances of activists before, said Roxas was having a difficult time in the mountains and wanted to return to her family. Roxas, 31, is a member of the US chapter of the militant Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan-USA or New Nationalist Alliance) and of the Los Angeles-based cultural group Habi Arts. Roxas and two other activists were seized in La Paz town, Tarlac in May. Alcover said they have a video of Roxas, whom he said had adopted the nom-de-guerre "Ka (comrade) Aya" in the underground movement, while training with guerrillas at an NPA camp in Aurora, a province east of Metro Manila. Alcover claimed he received a letter early in July purportedly from a female NPA rebel who wants to disassociate dis·as·so·ci·ate tr.v. dis·as·so·ci·at·ed, dis·as·so·ci·at·ing, dis·as·so·ci·ates To remove from association; dissociate. dis herself from the underground movement. "Comrade Aya", Alcover said, had been member of the NPA in 2006. Al Nisr Publishing Al Nisr Publishing is a company based in Dubai, UAE. The company is a part of Al Tayer Group. It was established in 1985 by Obaid Humaid Al Tayer, Abdullah Al Rostamani and Juma Al Majid. It employs 1,050 people and has branches in Manilla, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. LLC 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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