Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 73 trials mainly covered war crimes raging from murder, rape, and torture of civilians, to the inhumane treatment of Prisoners of War in the Philippines. It covered crimes committed across 20 provinces, for crimes committed from December 1941 to September 1945. 6 of the accused were flag officers, and 37% were junior officers, while the ...
The caption at the bottom reads: "Criminals Because They Were Born Ten Years Before We Took the Philippines". Reported American war crimes and atrocities during the Philippine–American War included the summary execution of civilians and prisoners, burning of villages, and torture. 298,000 Filipinos were also moved to concentration camps ...
Malabang, Lanao district, Moro Province. 53 (all of Filipino families of employees of the American military government stationed in the town) A band of Moros from the Rio Grande valley, led by a certain Datu Alis, perpetrated the attack. [15] Moro Crater massacre (Battle of Bud Dajo) 10 March 1906. Jolo Island.
Citizens of Manila run for safety from suburbs burned by Japanese soldiers, 10 February 1945 Destruction of the Walled City (Intramuros), 1945. The Manila massacre (Filipino: Pagpatay sa Maynila or Masaker sa Maynila), also called the Rape of Manila (Filipino: Paggahasa ng Maynila), involved atrocities committed against Filipino civilians in the City of Manila, the capital of the Philippines ...
The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, almost entirely civilians, most of them women and children, conducted by U.S. soldiers from the Company C of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the 23rd (American) Infantry Division, on 16 March 1968.
M. Makapili. Battle of Manila (1574) Categories: War crimes by country. Military history of the Philippines.
The Philippine War Crimes Commission (Filipino: Komisyon ng mga Krimen sa Digmaan ng Pilipinas) was a commission created in late 1945 by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers to investigate the war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during the invasion, occupation, and liberation of the Philippines.
Legal aspects. According to Philippine laws, terrorism is a crime under the Human Security Act of 2007 which describes such acts as causing "widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace". The first group to be officially listed as a terrorist organization under the law was the Abu Sayyaf on September 10, 2015, by the Basilan ...