Fritz Ignacio, Erika Kinilitan, Earl Mangornong, Xamwell Manlucot July 17, 2019

IPHP-G

Extrajudicial Killings
An ​extrajudicial killing​ (also known as ​extrajudicial execution​) is the killing of a
person by governmental authorities or individuals without the sanction of any ​judicial proceeding
or legal process. ​Extrajudicial punishments​ are mostly seen by humanity to be unethical, since
they bypass the ​due process​ of the legal jurisdiction in which they occur.

History of Extrajudicial Killings and why its dehumanizing

Extrajudicial killings started during the Marcos regime
In 1995, 10,000 Filipinos won a U.S. class-suit against the ​Ferdinand Marcos​ estate. The
charges were filed by victims or their surviving relatives for torture, execution and
disappearances. Human rights groups placed the number of victims of extrajudicial killings
under martial law at 1500 and over 800 abductions; ​Karapatan​ (a local human rights group's)
records show 759 involuntarily disappeared (their bodies never found). Military historian ​Alfred
McCoy​ in his book "Closer than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy" and in
his speech "Dark Legacy" cites 3,257 extrajudicial killings, 35,000 torture victims, and 70,000
incarcerated during the Marcos years. The newspaper "Bulatlat" places the number of victims of
arbitrary arrest and detention at 120,000.

The reason why EJK (extrajudicial killing) is deemed inhumane/dehumanizing is that in the first
place judicial killing is also aborted/suspended by the HB8909 or House Bill 8909 “life
imprisonment to death” which was then change to "reclusion perpetua or life imprisonment."
Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extrajudicial_killings_and_forced_disappearances_in_the_Philippin
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