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Manila, Philippines – Malacanang Palace dismissed Vice President
Robredo’s statement last Sunday on the issue that the government should welcome
the call of UN human rights experts for an independent probe on the rights
situation in the country if the administration had nothing to hide on the alleged
human rights violations in the country’s war on drugs.
“If
it’s true that there are no human rights violations in our country, why should
we oppose the investigation?” the Vice President said on her weekly radio show.
There
has been a recent call for an independent inquiry from eleven independent
experts, including UN Special Rapporteurs Agnes Callamard and Victoria
Tauli-Corpuz, on the United Nations to conduct an independent probe on the
country, saying they have recorded a “staggering number of unlawful deaths and
police killings” under the war on drugs launched by the Duterte administration
in 2016.
The
experts also stressed that “very few independent and effective investigations”
on the killings and rights violations had taken place since then.
Presidential
Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said that the allegations of human rights
violations such as extrajudicial killings has been used eversince by President
Rodrigo Duterte’s hot blooded critics and detractors.
“Yung basis nila on war on drugs on violation of human rights eh galing lahat sa opposition, at saka sa mga detractors ni Presidente na hindi naman napatunayan. They keep on repeating the same false narratives against this government,” according to Panelo
“Yung basis nila on war on drugs on violation of human rights eh galing lahat sa opposition, at saka sa mga detractors ni Presidente na hindi naman napatunayan. They keep on repeating the same false narratives against this government,” according to Panelo
“Moreover, as I
said, those issues were specifically raised during the election campaign and
the electorate repudiated overwhelmingly and so this rapporteurs should realize
by now that yung mga issue na niri-raise nila hindi totoo. Ang nangyayari
sinisiraan lang nila ang mga bansa na binabanggit nila,” he added.
Malacañang
has also dismissed the call, calling it “intellectually challenged” and an
“outrageous interference [in] Philippine sovereignty.”
Robredo
said, however, that rejecting the call only added doubt to the government’s
human rights record.
The
Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), for its part, has accused the UN human
rights experts of undermining the country’s sovereignty and the credibility of
multilateral dialogue.
Panelo
said that inquiries would be useless because the UN rights experts have already
drawn conclusions even before the investigation started.
2 Comments
The government should just ignore Robredo and the UN "experts."
ReplyDeleteEdcel Lagman, ikaw na baboy dagat, mammaatay ka din soon. Atakehin ka sana sa puso sa dami mo ng ninakaw kung ano ano na ang kinakahol mong puta ang ina mo. Isa ka lang dfugyot bago naging pulitiko naging milyonaryo ka agad putangina mo.
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