MILF and the Government will address issues that
will involve transitional justice. At this point and as
a matter of fact the team will leave this afternoon for
Kua la Lu m pu r fo r hopefu I ly the last session. Accord
i
n
g
to the FAB the Annexes should be finished by the end
of the year, because we're nearing the end of the year,
we
hope that they will finish all the annexes by the
end of the year. They had one round in November
lnternational Humanitarian
Law in the Security Sector
Brig. General Domingo Tutaan
Jr.
(AFP Human Rights Office)
and so this is the second round of
negotiations.
Hopefully everything comes through, We also hope
that in the soonest possible time, the President comes
out with an executive order containing the Transition
Commission which will convert all that is contained in
the FAB and in the annexes into a basic law so that it
can be ready for submission to Congress as soon as
it convenes. That is the basic feature of FAB.
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I was tasked to talk about the impact of IHL on the
security sector particularly on the Armed Forces of
the Philippines. Allow me to give some insights on
the matter. lHl- most especially the fundamental
principles of distinction, proportiona ity a nd im itation
I
I
has been an integral part of the Armed Forces of
the Philippines in many aspects. To name a few, and
major aspects, the education and training of the
individual soldier. This is brought about by a long
existing Memorandum Order 259 series of 1995, that
prescribes the mandatory inclusion of HR and IHL
modules and instructional packages in all courses
of the AFP and makes the successful completion
of these courses as a prerequisite for promotion,
designation and reassignment
an output of that summit that we had in 2009. This
graduated curricula and program of instructions are
now being revised.
This is paft of the plan of action that was presented
during the Second National Educators Congress for
Further on education and in training is a graduated
Human Rights Education in July of 2011 in Tagaytay,
curricular of HR IHL for the miliiary. This was
undertaken in 2 series; one was in 1995 as an off
shoot of M0 259 wherein the sectors led by the
CHR and the AFP came up with the first graduated
curricula on HR and IHL education for the military. ln
2011, as an off shoot of the First National IHL Summil
the second graduated curricula on its validation
edition came out with this graduated curricula on HR
and IHL for the military. This was undertaken by CHR
and all AFP education and training units with the
help and guidance of the lnternational Committee
on the Red Cross in coming out with this. I am saying
it is the off shoot of the First National IHL Summit
because this is the seal that was used during that
summit and I would say that it was part of it and
wherein the AFP looked into it as a matter of revising
the program of instruction or commonly known in the
educational fleld as the syllabus or curriculum simply
because special laws have been added that were not
included at the time when this was created. To name
a few, these are Republic Act 9851 and
Republic
Acl9745 or the Anti-Tofture Act of 2009. And more
impoftantly the Rome Statute of the lnternational
Criminal Law Court which was ratified very recently
and hence was not included in this curriculum.
ln order to make this more comprehensive during
the education and training of the individual soldier,
we are now including this as part of the activity.
Our military to military engagement with the newest
Itaguyod ang IHL: Sibilyan Pangalagaan