THE PHILIPPINES

Human Rights and Forest Management in the 1990s
This report documents a pattern of human rights abuse in the 1990s on government-administered forest lands in the Philippines. It examines areas where military operations, the collusion of private interests and government officials, or a combination of the two have led to broad and overlapping categories of human rights violations, including those associated with disputes over indigenous or ancestral land, those associated with challenges to illegal logging, and those related to counterinsurgency operations.
(C803) 4/96, 28 pp., $5.00/£2.95
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BAD BLOOD
Militia Abuses in Mindanao
This report, based on a five-week visit to Mindanao in January and February 1992, provides fresh evidence that the military has failed to control its militia, the Citizen Armed Force — Geographical Units (CAFGU). Asia Watch confirms those concerns expressed in earlier reports that the military has contravened its own guidelines in recruiting members with records of criminal or abusive behavior and in permitting militia to engage in arrests, interrogations and active combat. Bad Blood implicates the CAFGU in dozens of killings, and in cases of beatings, arbitrary arrest and harassment of poor tribes people and peasants in the rural provinces of Bukidnon, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur and Surigao del Sur. Abuses continue not only in areas of military conflict, but also in areas where the insurgency no longer poses a threat. Moreover, findings suggest that many more abuses may be occurring than have been reported, in areas most remote from the public eye.
(060X) 4/92, 44 pp., ISBN 1-56432-060-X, $5.00/£2.95
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