On a higher level, the possible connection I had cited earlier--it might not have registered--is that the overall counter-insurgency plan, in which Professor Alston said the element of extrajudicial killings has been incorporated, is one of the major initiatives of the Arroyo government. This program falls within the larger framework of the internal security plan that, strangely, combines military operations to establish peace in conflict areas with poverty alleviation and development projects.
Now, in Mindanao, which is a conflict area, CIDA is contributing to the peacekeeping work there. You would like to find out whether, by so putting these funds, the funds are applied exclusively to development projects...but since this is linked to the military operations, whether any part of the funds may have been channelled to the counter-insurgency program, which has involved extrajudicial killings.