After being expelled from the country for writing about military atrocities, Lee returned to the United States.
Human rights investigations into the violence uncovered significant military atrocities, conducted under so-called scorched-earth policies.
In court, Diokno personally defended tribal groups, peasants, social workers threatened by exploitation and military atrocities.
Judges, witnesses and court officials have been murdered, terrorized and forced into exile in cases involving military atrocities.
There was also an increasing risk that some military atrocity would provoke a cutoff of all aid from the U.S.
The film deals with military atrocities and the absurdities of borders and conflicts.
But Mr. Kwan learned about military atrocities from a screenplay he read while working for a studio several years ago.
Russia, which denounced the effort as "politically motivated," has ignored two earlier commission resolutions calling for an independent investigation into military atrocities against civilians.
Political and military bungling occurred on both sides, as well as military atrocities of the worst sort.
Each is inscribed with a text based on media accounts of military atrocities.