VERDICT OF THE PERMANENT PEOPLES' TRIBUNAL SECOND SESSION ON THE PHILIPPINES
Sunday, 25 March 2007
The wealth and consistency of the oral and written documentation made available through witnesses and expert reports, has convinced the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal that each and all of the three charges presented against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her Government, and against George Walker Bush and his Government are substantiated... The extension and the systematic nature of the violations of the rights of the Filipino people committed by the governments of Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and with the support and full awareness of the government of George Walker Bush, qualify the same violations as crimes against humanity, with all the consequences for the persons who are responsible for them. Such violations must be stopped immediately...
In a
13-page verdict read before about 300 people inside a church in this
city March 25, the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) found both
Philippine President Gloria M. Arroyo and U.S. President George W.
Bush, Jr. and their respective governments as responsible for gross and
systematic violations of human rights, economic plunder and
transgression of the Filipino people’s sovereignty.
Arroyo regime, COMELEC both liable for questionable May polls
Dr. Constancio Claver, witness testimony on extrajudicial killing of Alyce Omengan Claver
Hong Kong Mission report on grave rights abuses in the Philippines
