From the Daily Tribune (Apr 19): Group urges UN investigation on Kidapawan carnage
The human rights watchdog Karapatan has urged the United Nations (UN) to investigate the violent dispersal of farmers seeking food aid and production support from the Aquino government in Kidapawan City on April 1.
Two men were killed on the spot and 116 injured, with 79 farmers arrested and charged with criminal offenses.
“We believe that the Philippine state security forces, with the approval of, if not direct orders from top civilian authorities, deliberately and murderously attacked the protesters, grossly violating the farmers’ civil and political rights protected by the Philippine Constitution, law and various international covenants and instruments to which the Philippine Government is a signatory,” Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay said.
Karapatan, through letters to United Nations independent experts, brought to the attention of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) the killing, illegal arrest and detention, and other rights violations against the farmers in North Cotabato during and after the April 1 violent dispersal of 6,000 farmers in Kidapawan, North Cotabato.
Palabay asked for an investigation on the rights abuses against the farmers through Maina Kai, special rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders and Seong-Phil Hong, chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
Karapatan also submitted the full report of the National Factfinding and Humanitarian Mission (NFHM) conducted by the organization, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) and Bayan on April 4-6, 2016 in Kidapawan.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/nation/group-urges-un-investigation-on-kidapawan-carnage
KARAPATAN (Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights) is the main Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) human rights umbrella front organization. The main mission of the group is to discredit the Philippine government and military on human rights-related issues.
ReplyDeleteThe National Factfinding and Humanitarian Mission (NFHM) conducted by the organization, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP-Peasant Movement of the Philippines) and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN-New Patriotic Alliance) both CPP front organizations is a sham and is nothing more than another anti-government propaganda effort.
The fact-finding mission carried out by KARAPATAN and