In US Senate Hearing, Amnesty Int’l Suggests Ways to Stop Political Killings in the Philippines
Satur on YouTube. Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo “testified” to the US Senate hearing through a video uploaded to YouTube. Click on image to watch the video.
In its testimony to the US Senate yesterday, Amnesty International cited the Philippine government’s weak responses to the political killings, the ineffective investigations, the McCarthyist mentality in the military and the government, the abuses of Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan. It made several recommendations, among them that the human rights laws and agreements, among them the Comprehensive Agreement for the Respect of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law that the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front signed, be respected. It also asked Washington to send a “strong and clear message” to Manila that U.S.?Philippines relations “will suffer if the current trend in political killings continues and if Philippine authorities fail to bring past abusers to justice.”