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Amnesty International's first report about the Philippines in December 1975 revealed the “systematic and severe torture” handled by the Fifth Constabulary Security Unit (5CSU). [5] [7] Amnesty International found convincing evidence of widespread torture among prisoners, enabled by Marcos's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the ...
However, the reports of Amnesty International, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, the World Council of Churches, etc, all assert the fact that the torture happened as a policy of state, meant to stifle opposition, demonstrate the power of the ruling regime, and terrify the population into inaction.
Amnesty International's first report about the Philippines in December 1975 revealed the "systematic and severe torture" handled by the Fifth Constabulary Security Unit (5CSU). [12] [82] Amnesty International found convincing evidence of widespread torture among prisoners, enabled by Marcos's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and the ...
In 1985, an Amnesty International report on the Gukurahundi was dismissed by Mugabe as "a heap of lies". [237] Over the course of four years, approximately 10,000 civilians had been killed, and many others had been beaten and tortured. [ 238 ]
Amnesty International Philippines (AIPh) is a human rights organization in the Philippines, Manila. [1] It's an independent organization with the famous parent organization Amnesty International (AI). [2] Among its goals are networking, strengthening the local human rights movement, and lobbying.
Robert Mugabe and ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo signed the Unity Accord on 22 December 1987. [23] This effectively merged ZAPU and ZANU into the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF). On 18 April 1988, Mugabe announced an amnesty for all dissidents, and Nkomo called on them to lay down their arms.
The United Nations described the campaign as an effort to drive out and make homeless large sections of the urban and rural poor, who make up much of the internal opposition to the Mugabe administration. Amnesty International and the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions called on the UN
The Marcos dictatorship is historically remembered for its record of human rights abuses, [26] [27] [28] and based on the documentation of Amnesty International, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines, and similar human rights monitoring entities, [29] historians believe that the Marcos dictatorship was marked by 3,257 known extrajudicial ...