By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent
A GROUP that conducted a humanitarian mission for evacuees from strife-torn Marawi City yesterday claimed it has documented hundreds of cases of human rights abuses allegedly committed by soldiers and police officers against civilians since the declaration of martial law in Mindanao.
Amirah Lidasan,a convenor of the group Kalinaw Mindanao, told a news conference here that members of the National Interfaith Humanitarian Mission, conducted on July 26 to July 29, documented 309 cases of human rights violations.
Lidasan said the abuses include four extrajudicial killings, five tortures, two enforced disappearances, 20 illegal arrests and detention, 25 illegal arrests without detention, 110 indiscriminate gun fires and aerial bombardments, four divestment of properties, two violations of domicile, 15 destruction of properties, and 122 threats, harassments and intimidations.
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