Friday, May 21, 2004
U.S. concerned about human rights abuses?
So the U.S. is concerned about human rights abuses by the Philippine military and police? Is it a joke?
According to a new U.S. State Department report security forces are responsible for extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture and arbitrary arrest and detention. There were also reports of physical abuse of suspects and detainees, it said.
Sure, they are right. But so is the Philippine human rights group Karapatan who calls it "the height of hypocrisy that the U.S. should be lecturing about the Philippines' human rights records amid records amid the abuses its own forces inflict on other citizens of the world." Moreover, as Girlie Padilla of the Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace pointed out, "the Arroyo administration committed these abuses while pursuing and supporting the U.S. war on terror."
See "U.S. rights report spurs outrage in Philippines" in the International Herald Tribune.
According to a new U.S. State Department report security forces are responsible for extrajudicial killings, disappearances, torture and arbitrary arrest and detention. There were also reports of physical abuse of suspects and detainees, it said.
Sure, they are right. But so is the Philippine human rights group Karapatan who calls it "the height of hypocrisy that the U.S. should be lecturing about the Philippines' human rights records amid records amid the abuses its own forces inflict on other citizens of the world." Moreover, as Girlie Padilla of the Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace pointed out, "the Arroyo administration committed these abuses while pursuing and supporting the U.S. war on terror."
See "U.S. rights report spurs outrage in Philippines" in the International Herald Tribune.
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