U.N. report faults military for killings
The Philippine military appears to have been responsible for many of the hundreds of extrajudicial killings in the country, a United Nations investigator said. Philip Alston of Australia delivered the report after a 10-day investigation.
Military Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, in a strongly worded letter, condemned the findings as baseless and said a large number of the killings were carried out by communist guerrillas.
Rights group Karapatan has said that more than 800 people, most of them left-wing activists, have been slain or reported missing since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo took office in 2001.
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