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GLOBAL SETTING
“DIRTY WAR”
ARGENTINA
• Argentina's dictatorial government during the 1976–1983 period used extrajudicial
killings systematically as way of crushing the opposition in the so-called "Dirty
war" or what is known in Spanish as La Guerra Sucia.
• The ACL Human Rights Program highlighted that just in 2017 alone, at least 903
people have been shot and killed by law enforcement officers, including more than
300 who were fleeing from officers when they were shot.
• The report said that in many of the raids it investigated, Afghan forces
had “attacked civilians because of mistaken identity, poor intelligence or
political rivalries in the locality.”
“OPERATION CONDOR”…
SOUTH AMERICA
• Recently, police in the Indian state Uttar Pradesh are alleged to have
carried out 59 extrajudicial killings. The events have sparked an
inquiry by a panel of four United Nations independent experts on
human rights, which in a statement this month “expressed alarm”
about the killings that seemed to have taken place in police custody.
Condition in Sri Lanka…
SRI LANKA
• In the late 1980’s, Sri Lanka was wracked by a civil war between the military force and
the opposition groups. The war ended with a government military victory. However
from 2009 up to present, cases of extrajudicial killing by the military were reported. It
was alleged that Journalists, activist and human right defenders have been attacked by
the military.
“Marcos Dictatorship & War on Drugs”…
Philippines
• The human rights crisis in the Philippines unleashed since President Rodrigo
Duterte took office in June 2016 deepened in 2018 as Duterte continued his
murderous “war on drugs” in the face of mounting international criticism.