MANILA, Philippines — The House Makabayan bloc strongly condemned on Monday the Philippine Army’s 3rd Special Forces Battalion (3SFBn) over its treatment of the remains of a solon’s daughter slain in an encounter between government soldiers and the New People’s Army (NPA).
In a statement, Makabayan accused the military of “blatantly” violating the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) by “desecrating the remains” of Jevilyn Cullamat, daughter of Bayan Muna Rep. Eufemia Cullamat, and for supposedly circulating photos of her “obviously artificially posed body as though she were still carrying a rifle, and with troops displaying her corpse alongside captured paraphernalia.”
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