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Aside from the Bataan Death March, these are some of the war crimes attributed to General Homma: April 10, 1942—Approximately 100 Filipino soldiers were executed near Cabcaben Airfield. Pantingan River Massacre—On April 12, 1942, approximately 350 to 400 officers and non-commissioned
The 73 trials mainly covered war crimes raging from murder, rape, and torture of civilians, to the inhumane treatment of Prisoners of War in the Philippines. It covered crimes committed across 20 provinces, for crimes committed from December 1941 to September 1945. 6 of the accused were flag officers, and 37% were junior officers, while the ...
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Apr 20, 2024 · The main method advocated is not, for example, the death penalty for ‘heinous’ crimes like penal populism elsewhere (e.g., Pratt & Clark, 2005), but rather extrajudicial killings, which has a long tradition in the ‘local bossism’ of the formally democratic Philippines.
- Jayson S. Lamchek, Teresa Jopson
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particular, four key issues are tackled, namely, (1) vague legal definition of “extrajudicial killings,” (2) due process of law, (3) presumption of regularity and command responsibility, and (4) accountability and impunity.
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Feb 13, 2023 · Why did the ICC open an investigation? Soon after taking office in 2016, then-President Rodrigo Duterte unleashed his “war on drugs,” which resulted in thousands of killings, mostly of the urban...
Threats and attacks, including killings, against left-wing political activists, environmental activists, community leaders, Indigenous peoples’ leaders, journalists, lawyers, and others rose in the...
Jun 14, 2021 · The announcement by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that she is formally seeking an investigation into the Philippine government’s deadly “war on drugs” is a landmark step which brings justice closer for thousands of bereaved families, said Amnesty International today.
