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Idlas nga Hustisya (Elusive Justice)
By: yoyongsuarez
Posted: Oct 4 09
Witnessed: 1026 times
Regions: Philippines
Issues: Mass killings
Tags: Armed Forces of the Philippines, Arrests and Detention, Bohol, Cebu, Central Visayas Region, Counter Insurgency Campaign, demolition, extrajudicial killings, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Karapatan, Negros Oriental, Oplan Bantay Laya, Philippine National Police, Philippines, torture, Writ of Amparo
This video contains graphic footage of human rights abuses
The state of human rights in Central Visayas Region, Philippines, from January to July 2009. It exposes the barbaric character of the counter insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya" (Operation Plan Freedom Watch) of the Arroyo government which the United Nation Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings and Enforced Disappearances, Philip Alston sharply pointed out as behind the spate of killings in the Philippines.
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