Canadian Church Calls on UN to Investigate Political Killings

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BY SIKLAB-Ontario
Bulatlat

... The UCC called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour and UN Human Rights Council Chair Luis Alonso de Alba to mandate the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions to conduct an investigation into the political killings in the Philippines.

This developed after Canadian members of an International Solidarity fact-finding mission and members of the UCC visited the Philippines recently and met with families of the victims. In their victim-impact statements, witnesses disclosed that they recognized the assassins as members of the Philippine military and paramilitary death squads.

President Arroyo mentioned the high incidence of extra-judicial killings in her July 24 state of the nation address (SONA). Critics, however, quickly assailed her for praising Gen. Jovito Palparan who is known as the country’s “butcher” for his bloody campaigns of terror against unarmed civilians suspected as communists or New People’s Army supporters ...

http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-25/6-25-church.htm