UN expert recommends abolition of anti-terrorist task force in the Philippines
United Nations Special Rapporteur Ian Fry says on Wednesday, November 15 that he recommends the abolition of the government task force assigned to address communist rebellion, as environmental and human rights defenders in the Philippines have suffered "persecution". (Video Courtesy of AFPTV)
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00:00 I've heard of cases of torture, disappearance and extrajudicial killings of people and this
00:13 is totally unacceptable.
00:17 And it seems as though the government has lost control of some of its military organisations.
00:26 There are clearly people who have suffered dramatically as a consequence of the persecution
00:32 of environmental human rights defenders and there needs to be a process to properly review
00:40 the effects of the actions of the military.
00:43 I suggested that the government should revoke the Anti-Terrorism Bill Act.
00:52 The government needs to create a clean slate around its approach to anti-terrorism and
00:59 revise the laws to make them appropriate for the circumstances that are occurring now and
01:06 not to use the laws to harass, vilify and kill environmental human rights defenders.
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