Last Seen:

July 31, 1977

Makati
Rizalinda Ilagan, 24, a former student of the UP College of Agriculture, was last seen near the vicinity of the Makati Commercial Center in Makati on July 31, 1977. From reports of the Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, they learned that six others had in fact disappeared under the same or related circumstances, all within a couple of days of each other.

The families of the missing began searching for their missing loved ones in the first week of August 1977. They visited detention centers in Manila and in Camp Olivas in Pampanga but yielded negative results.

In the first week of October 1977, news reached the families of Rizalina Ilagan about three women killed in Mauban, Quezon. The family went to Mauban to check the reports. They were able to talk to the Barangay Chairman, who said that about the end of September 1977, they heard bursts of gunfire in the area but found no fatality.

On March 18, 1978, the families of Jessica Sales, Rizalinda Ilagan, Cristina Catalla, and Gerardo Faustino obtained permits for the exhumation of the bodies buried in Lucena by the military. The body of a young woman was exhumed, but the face was destroyed beyond recognition. The clothing, lower teeth, and height seemed to indicate that it belongs to Rizalinda Ilagan. The military, however, produced documentation that the said body belonged to a certain "Commander Edna."

To date, Rizalinda Ilagan and six of her colleagues remain disappeared.

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