Command responsibility of the President

In September 2009, an affiliate of the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) was abducted by the military. Dressed in civilian clothing, the military forced him into a car where he was held at gun point and beaten. He was brought to a remote area where they held him captive in a camp that belonged to the 17th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army. Here, he was continously interrogated and tortured for twelve (12) days to obtain a confession that he was a member of the New People’s Army (NPA). Torture included being beaten, starved, and electrocuted. He was also threatened to be killed if he did not give the location of the NPA camp.

Despite all this, he remained silent. During the latter part of his detention, he was forced to sign different documents declaring that he had surrendered to the military in an encounter, that he was never maltreated or tortured, and that he was a military asset giving information about different individuals who belonged to NPA and the different NPA locations.