Emergency Passage to the Liberated Zones

In 1980, six years before Marcos’s overthrow by a People Power revolt, the Permanent People’s Tribunal (PPT) brought his regime to trial for “crimes against humanity” (Permanent People’s Tribunal 1980, 25). The unprecedented atrocities and political assassinations committed by the police-military officials of the Arroyo government will now come under international scrutiny in March 2007 at The Hague, Netherlands. This international tribunal will hear the complaints of Arroyo’s crimes filed by countless Filipino groups, among them Hustisya, Selda, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan, Peace for Life, IBON, Public Interest Law Center, Ecumenical Bishops Forum, Karapatan, and the United Churches of Christ in the Philippines. The Center for People Empowerment in Governance reports that “Mrs. Arroyo, along with the Bush government, the IMF/WB/WTO, was charged with gross and systematic viola-tions of civil and political rights (extra-judicial killings, abduction and disappearances, massacres, torture, etc.); gross and systematic violations of economic, social and cultural rights; and gross and systematic violations of the right to national self-determination and liberation” (Center for People Empowerment 2006, 1–2). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Crimes against humanity · Human rights · International law · Political science · Politics · Torture · Tribunal · War crime · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Law · Philippine History and Culture