MIRIAM HITS REBEL HAVENS
Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago said that if required by military necessity, government armed forces in Mindanao should be authorized to enter rebel havens described by the existing ceasefire agreement as “areas of temporary stay.” Santiago said that a new Philippine criminal law defines “military necessity” as “employing measures which are otherwise indispensable to achieve a [...]
Read more...Miriam: “The track of justice and the track of peace run parallel” – Interview transcript, 21 October 2011
On whether the MILF should be charged for war crimes before the International Criminal Court for the ambushing and killing soldiers in Zamboanga The killing of the 19 members of the AFP by rebels in Mindanao raises the issue of whether we can now, since we are now party to the Rome Statute of the [...]
