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JMC representatives selected
Both the NDFP and GRP have completed their respective lists of representatives for the soon-to-be established Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC). The Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) provides for the formation of the JMC as the monitoring body for the agreement's implementation and as a conduit for complaints on human rights violations.
The NDFP has appointed Comrades Fidel Agcaoili, Coni Ledesma and Danilo Borjal as its representatives while the GRP chose Rene Sarmiento, Jose Luis Martin Gascon and Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel.
The NDFP also named Iglesia Filipina Independiente Supreme Bishop Tomas Millamena and Marie Hilao-Enriquez of KARAPATAN and SELDA (Samahan ng mga Ex-Detainees Laban sa Detensyon at para sa Amnestiya) as observers, while the GRP named Mercy Contreras and Aileen Bacalzo.
The JMC is set to be formally constituted during its first meeting scheduled within 90 days. Nonetheless, it remains to be seen just how effective it will be and how far it could operate, especially since the reactionary government is utterly unprepared for it and the AFP has no interest to see it function.
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 21 February 2004
English Edition
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