Three senators agreed with VP lenirobredo that the Duterte administration should be open to the call of UN human rights experts for an independent inquiry into killings linked to its war on drugs. | MRamosINQ
“If it’s true that there are no human rights violations in our country, why should we oppose the investigation?” she said.In a written statement, detained opposition Sen. Leila de Lima said it was only appropriate for the United Nations to step into the matter as the government had failed to investigate, arrest and prosecute people behind the killings.
De Lima alleged that 28,000 people, among them more than 5,000 drug suspects whom the government claims were killed in police operations after resisting arrest, have died since 2016, when the President launched the war on drugs. The rest, she added, were victims classified under the “homicide cases under investigation” by the Philippine National Police.Presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Monday said the joint statement of 11 UN special rapporteurs was a repeat of the “same false narratives against this government.”“How can you be asking for an investigation when you have already concluded that this country has violated certain human rights and has killed many people,” Panelo said at a press briefing.
“What’s happening now is mass murder. This should be condemned not just by our countrymen, but by the whole world,” Pangilinan said. —
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