Philippines unlawful killings by military and parliamentary forces.
Philippines unlawful killings by military and parliamentary forces.
- [various pages] : maps, photos 28 cm.
AI Index : ASA/35/02/88
Unlawful killings by government and government-backed forces have become the most serious human rights problem in the Philippines since mid-1987. Most victims have been people suspected of sympathy for the communist insurgency, many of them members of legal left-wing organizations. The killers have belonged to regular military and police forces, paramilitary civil defence forces and community-based "vigilante" groups acting with government support. --From the back cover
Human rights.
JC 571 / .P538 1988
AI Index : ASA/35/02/88
Unlawful killings by government and government-backed forces have become the most serious human rights problem in the Philippines since mid-1987. Most victims have been people suspected of sympathy for the communist insurgency, many of them members of legal left-wing organizations. The killers have belonged to regular military and police forces, paramilitary civil defence forces and community-based "vigilante" groups acting with government support. --From the back cover
Human rights.
JC 571 / .P538 1988