IRB - Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada: Forced recruitment by the NPA for "tax" collection and other purposes [PHL5574], 15 August 1990 (available at ecoi.net)
http://www.ecoi.net/local_link/191474/295091_en.html (accessed 23 May 2013)
Forced recruitment by the NPA for "tax" collection and other purposes [PHL5574]
Specific references to cases of forced
recruitment by the New People's Army (NPA) for specific tasks could
not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
However, various sources report cases of intimidation and
collaboration under threat, as well as abductions by the NPA. For
references found among the sources currently available to the
IRBDC, please find attached the following documents:
-"Salvaging" Democracy: Human Rights in the Philippines (New
York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, 1985), pp. 199-206;
-Vigilantes in the Philippines (New York: Lawyers Committee
for Human Rights, 1988), pp. 6-20;
-Report of the Asian Human Rights Commission Study Mission to
the Philippines - January 1988 (Hong Kong: Asian Human Rights
Commission, 1988), pages 63-64;
-Philippines: Unlawful killings by Military and Paramilitary
Forces (New York: Amnesty International USA, 1988), pp.
16-17.
