{"id":60972,"date":"2015-09-08T17:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T09:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60972"},"modified":"2015-09-08T17:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T09:15:37","slug":"afp-not-tolerating-soldiers-who-violate-human-rights-law-says-iriberri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/08\/afp-not-tolerating-soldiers-who-violate-human-rights-law-says-iriberri\/","title":{"rendered":"AFP not tolerating soldiers who violate human rights law, says Iriberri"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_56700\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56700\" style=\"width: 3600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lt.-Gen.-Hernando-Iriberri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56700\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lt.-Gen.-Hernando-Iriberri.jpg\" alt=\"Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Hernando Iriberri (Photo from Gov.ph)\" width=\"3600\" height=\"2654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lt.-Gen.-Hernando-Iriberri.jpg 3600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lt.-Gen.-Hernando-Iriberri-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Lt.-Gen.-Hernando-Iriberri-1024x755.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3600px) 100vw, 3600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56700\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Hernando Iriberri (Photo from Gov.ph)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Military personnel, regardless of ranks, will be punished strictly if found violating various tenets of the human rights and international law.<\/p>\n<p>Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Hernando DCA Iriberri stressed this when asked about what the military is doing in the wake of repeated complaints filed by various indigenous groups against its Eastern Mindanao-based troopers.<\/p>\n<p>The complaints included harassment, grave coercion and homicide or murder.<\/p>\n<p>Iriberri said the AFP is not tolerating such misdeeds as its strategy in dealing with insurgency and various other threats is based on &#8220;respect for human rights and international humanitarian law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Relatedly, he said the two troopers of the 68th Infantry Battalion accused of raping a 14-year-old Manobo girl are now undergoing investigation by operatives of the Philippine National Police in Talaingod, Davao del Norte.<\/p>\n<p>If sufficient proof is found for their misdeeds, the military will coordinate with civilian authorities in filing the necessary cases in court, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Military personnel, regardless of ranks, will be punished strictly if found violating various tenets of the human rights &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":56700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}