The Karapatan rights group on Sunday called out the 15th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army for a string of killings of peace consultants, activists, and farmers wrongly accused of being communist guerillas in the Visayas.
In a statement, Karapatan Secretary General Cristina Palabay said these killings constituted continuing violations of International Humanitarian Law by state agents against civilians and hors de combat .The IHL prohibits the killing or harming of both civilians and combatants who have been rendered hors de combat because they have been captured, wounded or surrendered, or otherwise incapable of participating in hostilities due to illness or some other disability.
“We demand a stop to these incessant violations of International Humanitarian Law and call on the Commission on Human Rights to conduct a thoroughgoing investigation of both the grave breaches of IHL,” she said.
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