Government-sponsored report links Philippine military to extrajudicial killings
Government data back UN findings
By Carlos H. Conde
International Herald Tribune
Published: February 22, 2007
MANILA: Some senior members of the Philippine military could be held accountable for a recent wave of extrajudicial killings, a government- sponsored commission said Thursday in a report the military chief of staff denounced as “unfair.”
The previously classified report was given to reporters one day after a United Nations human rights expert wound up a fact-finding mission with harsh criticisms of the military, saying that it was in a “state of almost total denial” about the murders of political activists, and that the government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo had not done enough to stem the violence.
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