Amnesty Int’l report: Impunity continues under Gloria
05/28/2010 London-based human rights watchdog Amnesty International (AI) recently reiterated similar worldwide findings linking President Arroyo to a culture of impunity under her dawning watch as it claimed in its annual report the widespread and systematic political killings and enforced disappearances of rivals and critics allegedly committed by Philippine security forces. With this year as a self-imposed govern-ment deadline in thumping a more than three-decade-old communist rebellion, the AI said the military failed to differentiate between communist New People’s Army (NPA) fighters and above-ground activists and human rights defenders belonging to legal organizations.” “The military subjected civilians to secret detention, torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Both sides carried out politically motivated killings and enforced disappearances. A culture of impunity continued as almost no perpetrators were brought to justice,” the group’s 2010 report released on Thursday in Manila said. AI called on the Philippine government to provide protection to people at risk of being targeted, and to initiate prompt, impartial, independent and effective investigations into all killings. The group lamented that while reported cases of political killings have decreased in the last two years, activists and human rights defenders from left-leaning organizations are still being killed or are continuously disappearing. Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20100528hed4.html |
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