"Scared Silent" Impunity for Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines

"Scared Silent" Impunity for Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines
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Scared Silent
Impunity for Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines
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I. Summary
II. Methods
III. Recent Military Relations with Government and Civil Society
Military involvement in politics
Military campaign against the New People’s Army
The military and leftist political and civil society groups
Recent Developments
Task Force Usig
Melo Commission
Visit by the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions
IV. Extrajudicial Executions
Extrajudicial executions
V. Failures to Investigate and Prosecute
Lack of Successful Prosecutions
“Solved” cases unsolved
Poor policing
Harassment of families and acquaintances following killings
Witnesses and victims’ families’ fears of retribution
Impediments to investigating military involvement in political killings
Identification of NPA as perpetrators
Police identification of unlikely perpetrators
Threats and Harassment of human rights lawyers
Harassment of international human rights workers
VI. Recommendations
To the President
To the Armed Forces of the Philippines
To the Philippines National Police
To the Judiciary
To the CPP-NPA-NDF
To the United States
VII. Acknowledgments

June 2007 Volume 19, No. 9(C)

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