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Bleeding Basilan

 

Partial documentation of human rights violations in Basilan 

 under the US-Arroyo regime

(as of 15 July 2002)

 

Compiled by: Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace (EMJP)

 

 

Types of Violations

 

 

Total No. of Victims:  3,169*

 

 

 

Killing

Massacre

 

10

6

Frustrated Killing

 

5

Indiscriminate Firing

Bombing/Mortar Shelling

 

1,276 (includes: 12 families

&  2 communities)

Forced Disappearance

 

1

Unjustified Arrest and

Arbitrary Detention

 

126

Torture

 

42

Harassment

Physical Assault

 

1,209 (includes: 2 communities)

Coercion

 

3

Illegal Search

 

602 (includes: 1 community)

Destruction of Properties

 

1,884 (includes: 14 families

&  3 communities)

Divestment of Properties

 

1,893 (includes: 14 families

& 3 communities)

Forced Evacuation

 

3,697 (includes: 16 families

&  6 communities)

Desecration of the Remains

 

3

Denial of Medical Attention

 

2

Use of Civilians in Military Operations

 

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Sources:  Basilan Fact Finding Mission Report, September 2001

                   And as documented by the Moro Christian People’s Alliance (MCPA)

(* Victims may have suffered more than 1 case/incident of human rights violation)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How many Bayan Muna members did you kill

today, ma’am?

 

 

 

Number of Victims

on the Attacks Against

Bayan Muna

Killings

 

22 individuals

(Massacre

 

3

Frustrated Killing

 

10

Indiscriminate Firing

 

13 & 1 community

Forced Disappearance

 

4

Unjustified Arrest

 

15

(Unjustified Arrest  w/ Arbitrary Detention

 

11

Torture

 

5

Harassment (grave threats, surveillance, sexual harasssment, etc)

 

50 & 2 communities

(Physical Assault

 

10

Violation of Domicile

 

2

Illegal Search

 

4 & 2 communities

Divestment of Property

 

5

Use of Civilians in Military Operation

 

2

Desecration of the Remains

 

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                                                                               Total Number of Cases :  125

                                                                Number of Victims : 2,581

     

 Partial documentation of the Arroyo administration’s CAMPAIGN OF REPRESSION 

against officers and members

 of Bayan Muna, Karapatan 

and other people’s organizations

(22 January 2001 – 15 July 2002)

 

Compiled by:

Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace (EMJP)

 

 

 

 


US-Arroyo regime:

WORST VIOLATOR OF PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

Types of Violations

 

 

Cases

Victims

 

 

 

 

 

 

INDIVIDUAL

FAMILY

COMMUNITY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Killings

 

 

 

 

86

148

 

 

(Massacre

 

 

 

 

13

55)

 

 

Frustrated Killings

 

 

21

32

 

 

Indiscriminate Firing

 

 

46

8,588

16

3

(Bombing

 

 

 

 

15

5,492

13

2)

Forced Disappearance

 

10

14

 

 

Abduction

 

 

 

6

7

 

 

Unjustified Arrest

 

 

161

627

 

 

(Unjustified Arrest and Arbitrary Detention

 

115

402)

 

 

Torture

 

 

 

67

93

 

 

Harassment

 

 

 

468

13,100

10

13

(Physical Assault

 

 

 

65

136)

 

 

(Assault in the Picketline

 

 

132

3,423)

 

 

Coercion

 

 

 

157

3,392

 

1

Illegal Search

 

 

 

54

5,346

15

8

Destruction of Properties

 

60

11,157

642

12

Divestment of Properties

 

63

8,606

519

9

Forced Evacuation

 

 

73

16,094

976

17

(Reconcentration

 

 

 

6

896

149)

 

Hamletting

 

 

 

1

35

 

 

Food Blockade

 

 

 

3

637

 

1

Desecration of the Remains

 

7

15

 

 

Denial of Medical Attention

 

10

12

 

 

Use of Civilians in Military Operations

28

51

 

 

Violation of Domicile

 

 

13

35

1

 

 

1,334 cases

37,164 victims

including 1,265 families,

 and 38 communities

 

                 Partial documentation of HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS RECORD of the US-Arroyo regime

(22 January 2001 – 15 July 2002)

 

Compiled by: Ecumenical Movement for Justice and Peace (EMJP)

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