kaysa sa genocide. If you have mass murder or killings, usually hindi murders ang argument:
systemic, and sino ang namamatay, or rape. So those are things you have to see.
In war times there is a grave breach. In fighting a war there are acceptable and
non-acceptable things. In battle you kill each other, sure, but you do not mutilate the body.
May conventional war, barilan okay. But wag kayong magdrop ng chemical or biological
weapons. May Geneva convention, et cetera.
Ethnic cleansing is essentially a policy that people encountered for the first time - targeting a
particular identity and removing them from a certain area. Land, certain area of that
particular identity group. That was the reason why sa Yugoslav war it was ethnic cleansing.
Genocide is very difficult to prove.
Rwanda’s demography changed after that war. Most of the political leaders are women,
because mostly the women survived. Nawala talaga ang kalalakihan dahil sa pananaw na
lalaki ang dapat lumalaban.
Genocide is targeting the particular identity. Whether its religion, political affiliation, it is in
this sense that supposedly systematic, massive. Also it has to be a matter of declaration or
policy which has been quite difficult.
Those are direct violence, and more often than not, that is what we see. What we see posted
in Facebook, “how come no one's talking about Sudan,” et cetera, matagal na yan. There's
not just direct violence. there's also structural violence.
The ten stages of genocide, there's something deeper. Regarding human rights, you're not
only looking at direct violence but also structural violence that may be the cause of the direct
violence. There is a tendency to say that they are different, and by virtue of saying they are
saying different, “okay lang na patayin ka, wala ka namang lupa”. “Okay lang na patayin ang
drug addicts, addict naman sila”. There is a certain branding, and when that branding goes
out in public and if it captures your consciousness, "okay lang" - na okay lang that women
are blamed sa rape. For example, Jennnifer Laude.
And they emanate from this one. Not all things that are legal are correct, are moral, are
ethical. The holocaust was legal. Apartheid was legal. What was illegal was to fight against
apartheid. What is legal is not necessarily what is right.
Where are the women during this period? During wartime, during peace? Where are they
when it comes to crimes against humanity? Where are they when you're counting the GDP,
when you’re talking about social services? When being an indigenous woman, a Moro
woman. We always ask the question where are they?
So why are we talking about WPS? The central component is women. Where are they in so
far peace and security is concerned. Focus tayo dito.
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