"A consensus is shaping up among lawyers’ circles, human rights groups, civil libertarians and others that the case against the President, along with rogue generals implicated in the war crimes and crimes against humanity, should proceed under the principle of command responsibility even if this means calling for her arrest and indictment in an international tribunal held outside the country.
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The first to comprehensively codify the doctrine of command responsibility was the Additional Protocol I (AP I) of 1977 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949. AP I clarifies that crimes committed by a subordinate does not absolve his superiors from responsibility “if they knew” or “had reason to know” about the commission and did nothing to prevent any breaches of the Convention. Based on Article 86 of AP I, it has been interpreted that command responsibility extends as high as any officer in the chain of command who knows or has reason to know that his subordinates are committing war crimes and fails to act to stop them."
Dagdag pa ni Justice Puno, " The extrajudicial taking of life is the ultimate violation of human rights,.. Extrajudicial killings also constitute brazen assaults on the rule of law."
habang paunti-unting naaayos ang sistema ng dokumentasyon sa KARAPATAN, lalo namang nakakalungkot na nakakapagpapuyos ng damdamin ang bawat listahang nilalabas ng database system. sa bawat queries na iyong gagawin, hindi bababa sa 10 ang biktima ng pagpatay na ang madalas na pinaghihinalaang perpetrators ay elemento ng AFP, PNP o kaya naman ay mga unknown goons.
Sa summit na gagawin, hindi ko lang alam kung ano ang dapat na expectations. Sa wika ni Bb Marie ng Karapatan, "It is our hope that the summit would yield positive results because at the end of the day, what will matter most is if justice has been dispensed for those who were aggrieved."
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