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MANILA – The government is developing a better work process to investigate approximately 2,000 alleged violations of International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the majority of which were perpetrated by organized armed groups.

The Inter-Agency Committee on Extra-Legal Killings, Enforced Disappearances, Torture, and Other Grave Violations of the Right to Life, Liberty, and Security of Persons (IAC) met on May 12 “to simplify case workflow,” according to Department of Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra via text message.

He stated that they will devise a “process for deciding whether a case fits within the scope of AO 35 or is an ordinary crime.”

“The working group will concentrate on International Humanitarian Law (IHL) situations where the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has submitted incident reports,” Guevarra stated. “They’ll decide how to proceed with the case construction, including obtaining sworn statements from witnesses and serving subpoenas on armed respondents with no fixed addresses.”

He said that the New People’s Army was involved in a number of the cases referred by the military (NPA).

“We have not studied all of the 1,800 events reported to the AO 35 committee by the AFP,” Guevarra stated, “but those that we have investigated so far were acts of the NPA.”

263 incidences from Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol, and the Eastern, Central, and Western Visayas are among the IHL cases brought to the working committee.

According to Guevarra, 29 alleged extrajudicial executions and torture cases in Calabarzon and Eastern Visayas had been delisted due to a lack of witnesses or the complainants’ lack of interest.

“The majority of these incidents were solely investigated by the Philippine National Police, the Commission on Human Rights, and the National Prosecution Service.” “We’re still looking into unsolved AO 35 incidents in other regions,” he said.

The IAC was established in 2012 under AO35 as the government’s institutional mechanism for resolving unsolved cases of political violence such as extrajudicial executions, disappearances, torture, and other grave violations of people’s right to life and liberty.

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