We condole with the family and friends of the victims and join them in calling for justice. The righteous indignation about this landmine incident has invariably included references to violation of the international humanitarian law on landmines and similarly functioning improvised explosive devices .
That there were waiting NPA ambushers is established by the gunshot wounds on the victims, an obvious move to finish them off after the blast. This scenario is consistent with long-time NPA ambush tactics that usually involved the command-detonation of a landmine, often of the anti-vehicle kind, by the waiting ambushers.
In the meantime, even though pending sufficient determination of the kind of landmine or IED used, we can safely say that the NPA definitely committed violations of the IHL on landmines which are punishable as war crimes under Philippine law, R.A. No. 9851 , but for different war crime specifications.
At the R.A. 9851 level, if the landmine used was a victim-activated APM, the corresponding Section 4 war crime is that of “ Employing means of warfare which are prohibited under international law, such as:… Weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare which are of the nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering or which are inherently indiscriminate in violation of the international law of armed conflict.
The NPA, however recognizes, among others, the 1998 Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law .
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