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HUSTISYA! A video on Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa and other victims of state terrorism in Bicol
A production of Karapatan-Bicol and Bicol Xpress
Posted April 7, 2007
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HUSTISYA! A video on Pastor Isaias Sta. Rosa and other victims of state terrorism in Bicol
A production of Karapatan-Bicol and Bicol Xpress
Posted April 7, 2007
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The video has interviews with the members of the family and other persons who have direct knowledge of the circumstances of the killing of Pastor Sta. Rosa by military death squads. |
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The leader of the death squad, accidentally killed by his men, even had his ID and mission order with him. |
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The HUSTISYA video has a section on the other killings in Bicol perpetrated by agents of state terrorsm. |
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Hustisya joins international groups hit RP seat in UN rights council Kim Quitasol, Nordis Weekly
BAGUIO CITY (Apr. 2)—Hustisya throws in its protests along with several international human rights groups to denounce the inclusion of the Philippine government in the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC).
Joan Carling, the local coordinator of Hustisya in the Cordillera, an organization of survivors of political killings said the Philippine government should be removed from the UNHRC considering the gravity of human rights violations situation in the country. “How could a human rights violator be part of the UNHRC?” she said.
Carling said it would be ironic to file cases of human rights violations at the UNHRC if the Philippine government is part of the council.
Carling further said even the Permanent People's Tribunal (PPT), an independent international body of human rights experts from different non-government organizations and civil society criticized the inclusion of the Philippines in the UNHRC as unacceptable.
As a result of the probe on the Philippine human rights situation held last March 20 to 25 in The Hague, Netherlands, the Tribunal declared the Philippine government guilty of gross violation of civil, political and socio-economic rights of its people.
Carling added that aside from the PPT, other international groups that include the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial, Summary or Arbitrary Execution, United Nations Special Rapporteur (UNSP)on the Situation of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Indigenous Peoples (IP) and United States Senate condemned the failure of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo government to stop extra-judicial killings.
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According to national daily reports, another international group raised alarm over the killings. The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (Federation internationale des droits de l'homme, or FIDH), a worldwide alliance of human rights groups based in Paris, chose the Philippines as the venue for the Asian launch of its 2006 Annual Report because of the escalating rights violations in the country. The same report said the FIDH echoed the findings of Prof. Philip Alston of the UNSP on Extra-judicial, Summary of Arbitrary Execution.
The report added that Alston earlier this week presented presented his initial findings at the UNHRC in Geneva where he noted “the passivity, bordering on an abdication of responsibility,” on the part of authorities assigned to resolve the killings. He also said the military and not purges of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) was responsible for “a significant number” of extra-judicial killings.
Carling criticized the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Arroyo government for their continued denial of accountability over the escalating extra-judicial killings despite overwhelming international condemnation. She said even the UNSP on IP reports indicated military involvement.
She also said that even the Melo Commission, which GMA herself created to investigate the killings stated that “circumstantial evidence show that some members of the military are involved in the killings”. She added that the Melo report also admitted that Gen. Jovito Palparan should be held responsible for command responsibility.
Carling, however, criticized the Melo report for not including GMA's accountability being the commander in chief of the AFP. She also condemned the AFP for trying to discredit Karapatan's data on the number of killings saying that the human rights group bloated the number of victims. “It is not a question of numbers but a question of political killings as a crime against humanity,” she stressed.
Carling iterated that up to date not one of the over 800 cases of extra-judicial killings were resolved and not one perpetrator was yet brought to justice. # Kim Quitasol for NORDIS
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