The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will launch its own investigation into the deaths of National Democratic Front (NDF) consultant Ericson Acosta and a peasant organizer in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, an official said Friday.
The Commission on Human Rights will launch its own investigation into the deaths of National Democratic Front consultant Ericson Acosta and a peasant organizer in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, an official said Friday.
Human rights groups alliance KARAPATAN called on the commission to look into the incident after the NDF-Negros reported that Acosta and his companion Joseph Jimenez were killed in a military operation on Wednesday. She added that “the reported killing of Acosta and Jimenez violates the NDFP-GRP Comprehensive Agreement on the Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, as well as Republic Act No. 9851 on crimes against IHL, genocide and other crimes against humanity, which protect the rights of both civilians and parties to an armed conflict”.
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