years in the Philippines,wherein many
people-landowners,farmers
were murdered and until now no justice has been given to the
families of those who disappeared.
Chinese businessmen became wealthy thru seizing lands in the
Philippines and the U.N. is still starting to address this
genocide
hopefully people who want to help will listen.
QUEZON CITY, Philippines - Government should give greater
resources to assist internally displaced persons, the same as they
assist victims of natural disasters. And all armed groups and the
Philippine government should pursue the peace process so that
people can live in peace. One speaker from Mindanao said evacuation
center conditions were dehumanizing.
Those were some recommendations reached at the national summit
on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) on Wednesday in Quezon
City. The participants also urged Congress to speedily pass the
bills on internally displaced persons.
The Commission on Human Rights which convened the gathering,
with the NAtioanl ad hoc Committee on IHL Day and the umbrella
civil society group CSI-IHL to mark the 60th Anniversary of the
Geneva Conventions, the backbone of IHL, known as the law of
armed-conflict.
“International Humanitarian Law is very relevant to protecting
human rights in the Philippines, without there are no bound to
armed conflict and we will see a return of the atrocities of World
War II such as the death march and sexual slavery," CHR
Commissioner Cecilia Rachel Quisumbing said.