My husband Ericson Acosta
*This article was first published in TATAK KULÊ, Philippine Collegian Alumni Homecoming Souvenir Program, October 7, 2011. Kerima Lorena Tariman served as managing editor of the University of the Philippines student paper Philippine Collegian during AY 1999—2000. A poet and revolutionary, she was slain in an encounter between the New People’s Army and the 79th Infantry Battalion in Silay, Negros Occidental on August 20, 2021. Ericson Acosta, who served as consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines was killed by elements of the 94th and 47th Infantry Battalion after being reportedly abducted in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on November 30.
