Senator De Lima said that the move was merely a “last-ditch attempt” of the Duterte administration to supposedly derail the work of international bodies like the UNHRC. | GabrielLaluINQ
“My recommendation fell on deaf ears. Earlier, in September of that same year, I introduced a proposed Senate resolution urging the Duterte administration to invite the UN Special Rapporteur on Summary Executions to conduct a country visit. Again, my proposal got nowhere,” she said in a statement written from her detention cell in Camp Crame.
“It does not cover the killings done by other State-inspired death squads, the vigilantes,” she added. Guevarra said that the body would not only review the deaths but would also discuss the affected families while providing legal assistance for possible prosecution of state officers involved.As of now, only one drug war killing case has been found to be a product of summary execution — that of teenager
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