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THE Philippines ordered nine members of an elite police unit to face an inquiry today after they were accused by the human rights commission of executing three men suspected of a bloody bank robbery.
National police chief Avelino Razon also ordered the transfer of the nine police officers to the regional police headquarters in Laguna province while facing the inquiry.
"We will not tolerate any wrongdoing in our organisation,'' Razon told reporters, adding the move to temporarily remove the nine officers from their jobs was to make sure they could not influence the investigati... Read more
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Iraqi police who appeared to lynch a failed suicide bomber in a beating broadcast by a satellite television station are to face human rights charges, the government said on Saturday.
Graphic pictures of the incident, which occurred on February 28, 2007 at the height of Iraq's sectarian clashes when security forces were being targeted daily, have been shown after every news bulletin since Thursday evening.
The violent footage on Sharqiya television showed police officers stamping on the foiled bomber's head and kicking his body. They then danced and fired weapons in celebration.
A statement from the interior ministry, responsible for the police, said an inquiry recommending prosecutions had been approved and "anyone involved in the violation of human rights will be sent to court to receive proper punishment."
"The (internal) investigation committee presented the results of their work to the minister himself and he approved it," it said.
A police officer told AFP the bomber, an Algerian whose payload was hidden in gas and chlorine bottles, was foiled when his path into Bab al-Sheikh police station in central Baghdad was blocked by a departing policeman's car.
"By chance, the car blocked the entrance. The officer opened fire and wounded the suicide bomber," before a gunfight broke out between police and insurgents who launched a secondary attack, the officer said.
Some but not all of the 24 fuel bottles, which were covered by building materials, exploded, causing casualties. But all the insurgents except the bomber, who was shot and killed, managed to flee, he said.
The statement said the relieved officers then took their revenge by repeatedly hitting the bomber's body.
It was not clear from the television pictures if the foiled bomber was dead or alive when the officers attacked him.
"He was Algerian and spoke in an Arabic dialect that Iraqis could not understand," said an officer close to the investigation.
"It was one of the worst periods ever for attacks against police. That explains why it happened," the officer added.
Around 9,500 Iraqi police and soldiers have been killed since the March 2003 US-led invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein, according to figures used by the Washington-based Brookings Institution.
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