MAIN VIOLATIONS Further disaggregating the incidents, the researchers created subclassifications to accurately describe the incidents and shed light on the differences in gravity or variance in the instances of the committed human rights violations.
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Out of the total number of killings, 48% of them were committed by unknown assailants (typically known as “riding-in-tandem” because the killers are two people riding a motorcycle). 33%, meanwhile, were summary or arbitrary executions or the more common understanding of extrajudicial killings.
KILLING
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96.5% of the arrests were arbitrarily made, distinguished from the 3.5% that were part of the unique palit-ulo scheme.
ARBITRARY DETENTION
10
2
OTHER
ENFORCED
HARMFUL ACTS
DISAPPEARANCE
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TORTURE
Killings dominate the number of incidents, comprising 51% of the human rights violations, while 46.4% were unlawful arrests.
RELATED VIOLATIONS
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OTHER HARMFUL ACTS
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6
ARBITRARY DETENTION
TORTURE
ENFORCED
DISAPPEARANCE
From the total number of HRVs, around 45% had related human rights violations, such as planting of evidence, taking of property, forceful ingestion of substances, extortion, sexual violence, to name a few.
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