investigatiorr and action, such as Sulong
CARHRIHL has been doing albeit rnainly at
local community- level. "
In closing Judge Soliman said that his remarks, as
well as the round-table discussions, will show that we
have reached the conjuncfure where our collective
work for IHL must be brought to the next level,
one that is, to draw inspiration from the recenfly
concfuded Olympics, Citius, Ntius, Fottius ("Faster,
Highea Stronger''). He said it is time to move
"towards a Philippine Program of Action on Effecting
IHL." It is time to climb another IHL Summil
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On a final note, Judge Soliman said the 2009 IHL
Summit Communique, aside from urgently calling
on the CHR to adopt a policy of entertaining
investigating and processing complaints of IHL
violatior-rs, also particularly called on the CHR
to develop its own complementary or fall back
mechanism to the JMC. He challenged the CHR
to "seize the moment claim the presenf of the
current CHR ar-rd presidential administration to
finally get a rnore effective institutional redress in
terms of truth, justice and healing for the CPPNPA purges of the 1980s before the moment
and the momentum are losf including along the
lines of but not necessarily a full-blown "truth
commission" that this time should not be declared
"unconstitutional."
PARALLEL DISCUSSIONS
After the Keynote Address of Judge Soliman, the
participants formed three break-out groups and
proceeded on parallel discussion on three thematic
areas, i.e., Work on Education, Information
and Communications, Work on Monitoring
Investigation and Prosecution, and Work on
Humanitarian Interventions.
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