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Department of National Defense in a sari-sari store near her house. He said Delloro should cooperate with
them because she is doing activities other not related to her office and union work. She was given a
cellphone number with instruction to call him and an assurance he will protect her should she
cooperate with them.
On June 16, employees of the National Housing Authority in its District office in Sta. Mesa, Manila said
a policeman went to the office and took pictures of them. They confronted the said policeman, asked why
he took their photos and required him to delete the pictures. When he said he did not know how to delete
the pictures, the staff took upon themselves to ensure the pictures were deleted. The policeman said it was
allegedly because of the rallies. The NHA District Office is the work office of Rose Nartates,
COURAGE Secretary General.
Just recently, Erwin Lanuza, an employee of the Quezon City Hall and their union President, was met by
a man again who said he is a military, along the corridors leading to his office, The man was wearing a
baseball cap and eyeglasses. He also left a cellphone number.
3. THREATS AGAINST COURAGE NATIONAL OFFICE STAFF AND ORGANIZERS
On June 16, a man who introduced himself as Joey from the military approached Mr. Benny Angeles, a
retiree of the MMDA, former union leader of the KKK-MMDA and now works as a volunteer organizer
for COURAGE. The man said they knew Benny as a member of the CPP-NPA and all the others in the
union as well and their anti-government activities. Ha gave a note where his name and a cellphone
number and instructed Angeles to call him should he decide to return to the fold.
On the same day, Bob Reyes, a COURAGE National organizer for more than 15 years and former
contractual employee of the Caloocan City Government was alone in his house with his youngest son. A
man who introduced himself as a military said he knew him and his involvement with the CPP-NPA.
Reyes insisted he is with for COURAGE for several years now working for the state workers salary
increase and union rights. The man gave him a cellphone number and warned call me or blame yourself
if something bad happens to you.
The same thing happened to Generosa Manilag. Nanay Lance as she is fondly called volunteers for
COURAGE for its community welfare assistance program in Taguig City before COURAGE finally
made her a full-time member of its administrative staff.
Chito Juliano and Romeo Manilag in their affidavits claim the COURAGE rented jeepney was tailed by a
man in a motorcycle from the rally at the Office of the Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process in
Ortigas last Friday, June 26. The same man supposedly took photos of the staff during the said rally.
Husband and Wife Oliver and Rowena Rosales complained of heightened daily surveillance to and from
their homes, the COURAGE Office and the union offices assigned to them. A former colleague who now
works in the private sector informed them that military men also visited him looking for the whereabouts
of Oliver. A leader from a union assigned to Rosales also received a text message from a man claiming to
be him asking for an urgent meet-up.
And just as COURAGE is preparing for the filing of the second batch of cases, another National Staff,
Raquel Toquero was visited by two unidentified men in her home in Silang, Cavite on June 28. They also
introduced themselves as military. One went directly near the dirty kitchen where Raquel was standing.
With only a screen door between them, he said the same lines before he left and came back again as if
forgetting something and told her to think about what they relayed. The other man talked to her husband
in the kitchen window. Both left hurriedly.
Other staff and organizers complain of stalking and surveillances (taking photographs, recording
conversations and videos) while travelling to and from the office.
4. COURAGE NATIONAL OFFICE UNDER SURVEILLANCE
Suspicious looking men lurking in the corner of the street where the COURAGE National Office is
located. Vehicles were also parked just outside the gates for days, sometimes with two or more
unidentified men just inside the parked vehicles. Bolder ones took photos of the staff and organizers who
frequent the office.