From GMA News (Apr 1): NDF: 'Revolutionary gov't' orders arrest of ex-PNoy, others over violent Kidapawan dispersal
A year after the violent dispersal of farmers, the National Democratic Front (NDF) in Southern Mindanao said former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III has been indicted for crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international human rights law on the "Kidapawan Massacre."
Also indicted by the "revolutionary government" were North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco, several other Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) civilian personalities and military and police officials.
The NDF said Aquino and the other officials were indicted for "war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law."
It said that "the People’s Democratic Government, found compelling evidence that the 'gross neglect and apathy and willful acts and/of omissions' of the named-respondents violated the fundamental rights of the civilians guaranteed in international tenets, covenants and instruments."
The group said that the indictment "effectively prescribed the arrest" of Aquino and the others.
It added that "after due trial by a People’s Court," Aquino and the others must “be meted out with appropriate penalties for having committed the above-mentioned acts constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law.”
The NDF Southern Mindanao noted in its statement the "willful shooting that resulted in multiple violent deaths and serious injuries, the incarceration and the maltreatment of civilians were all deliberate acts of aggression against defenseless civilians and vulnerable sections of the civilian population long considered under IHL(International Humanitarian Law) as protected persons."
The announcement was made on the first anniversary of the violent dispersal of at least 6,000 farmers in Kidapawan City in Apr. 1, 2016. Two persons were killed and over a dozen were hurt as policemen arrested and dispersed the protesting farmers.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines, Presidential Security Group and the Philippine National Police have yet to reply to questions if additional security personnel will be provided to Aquino and the other officials due to the NDF's announcement.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/605527/news/nation/ndf-revolutionary-gov-t-orders-arrest-of-ex-pnoy-others-over-violent-kidapawan-dispersal
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