From the Philippine News Agency (Jun 9, 2021): NPA rebels in Absalon killing must be prosecuted: solons (By Benjamin Pulta)
Kieth Absalon (Photo courtesy of Facebook)
Senators condemned on Wednesday the death of collegiate football player Kieth Absalon and his cousin after an anti-personnel mine exploded in Barangay Anas, Masbate City on Sunday.
In a statement, Senator Richard Gordon said the "indiscriminate killing" is an “assassination” and must stop.
Citing Republic Act No. 9851, or the Philippine Act on Crimes Against International Humanitarian Law, Genocide and Other Crimes Against Humanity, Gordon said perpetrators from the New People’s Army (NPA) who claimed responsibility for the attack are liable for war crimes.
The law prohibits "weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of the nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict".
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1143179
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