This month, on May 17-18, the International Peoples’ Tribunal, a quasi-judicial forum periodically convened in Europe, will focus on the Philippines for the sixth time since 1980.
This month, on May 17-18, the International Peoples ’ Tribunal, a quasi-judicial forum periodically convened in Europe, will focus on the Philippines for the sixth time since 1980.
After due deliberations, the panel presents a summary and preliminary verdict based on the evidence and inputs presented to them. A full and elaborated verdict shall be issued in due time. Convened under the auspices of the FFPS and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, this year’s tribunal seeks to address the alleged war crimes committed by the “US-Duterte regime ” and the current “US-Marcos regime .” Specific focus is on how the two administrations have pursued their respective counterinsurgency operations patterned after the US National Security Strategy and the US 2009 Counterinsurgency Guide.
• The attempted extrajudicial killing by two Philippine Army soldiers of Brandon Lee, a US citizen married to a Cordillera woman, on Aug. 6, 2019 in Lagawe, Ifugao. • Killing hors de combat of the young poet Kerima Lorena Tariman in Silay City, Negros Occidental on Aug. 20, 2021. She was a member of the New People’s Army but was not in combat at the time.
• Enforced disappearances of the two activists Dexter Capuyan and Gene Ross de Jesus on April 28, 2023 in Taytay, Rizal.• Abduction and attempted presentation as “surrenderees” of environmental workers Jhed Tamano and Jonila Castro on Sept. 3-19, 2023 by the Army’s 70th IB and NTF-ELCAC.
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