Arroyo indicted at the People's Permanent Tribunal in The Hague

10/30/2006 06:09:00 AM

AN INTERNATIONAL “opinion” tribunal will indict on Monday President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on charges of human rights violations filed by Filipino leftist and human rights organizations who have been seeking to bring international pressure to bear on the government’s rights record.
The session of the People’s Permanent Tribunal (PPT), set to open at The Hague, The Netherlands on Monday afternoon Philippine time, is the second on the Philippines following its 1981 indictment of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos for alleged “crimes against humanity.”

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    Democracy, according to the late Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, is "a question of human dignity, [a]nd human dignity is political freedom, the right to freely express opinion and the right to be allowed to criticise and form opinions."

    But exercising political freedom in the Philippines, which purports itself to be a democracy, can lead to death. Since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency of the country in 2001, more than 800 Filipinos murdered in politically-motivated, extra-judicial, targeted killings. Since the 4th quarter of July 2005, one person has been killed every two days. The victims of these brazen acts of violence were all unarmed citizens: lawyers, judges, journalists, medical practitioners, members of cause-oriented groups, priests, church-workers, human rights advocates, laborers and farmers.

    It is widely believed—and the United Nations support this belief—that state security forces are complicit in these crimes.