This is what you get when you want crazy to run your country. Philippine Pres Duterte threatens tribal communities with airstrikes over accusations that they are teaching students to become rebels. – PB/TK
Rights groups ask Duterte to retract threat to bomb schools – AP / July 25 2017
MANILA, Philippines – Human rights groups asked the Philippine president Wednesday to retract a threat to order airstrikes against tribal schools he accused of teaching students to become communist rebels, warning such an attack would constitute a war crime.
U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said international humanitarian law “prohibits attacks on schools and other civilian structures unless they are being used for military purposes,” adding that deliberate attacks on civilians, including students and teachers, “is also a war crime.”
Left-wing Rep. Emmi de Jesus of the Gabriela Women’s Party asked Duterte to retract the threat, saying government troops may use it as a pretext to attack indigenous, or Lumad, schools and communities in the country’s south which have come under threat from pro-military militias in recent years.
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