Palace: UN probe on Duterte drug war is clearly an ‘interference’
Credit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 09:56:49 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang maintained Friday that any investigation of the United Nations (UN) on President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war would be “interference with” Philippine sovereignty.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said this after Iceland called on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate the bloody drug war in the country.
“We already made our stand. Any move that will interfere with the sovereignty of this country, the management of this country by a sitting President elected overwhelmingly by the people, to our mind is an interference with our sovereignty,” Panelo told reporters in Malacañang.
“The problem with this, those who initiated it, they are believing in the false news, false information, the false narratives initiated and spread by those who hate the President’s guts and political will, and supported by some questionable members of not media mainstream, but outside of that,” he added.
He said calls for the UNHRC to probe the Philippines’ drug was already an interference.
“Yes, of course. Bakit sila minamanduhan yung isang (Why are they muscling into a) sovereign state?” he said.
Data from the Philippine National Police showed that 6, 600 persons were killed since the administration launched its drug war in June 2016.
“The records are there. [The] official report of the PNP is there, the 5000 plus victims of police operations are recorded who they are, who they were how did it come about, [it’s complete]…,” Panelo said.
“Yung sinasabi nila 27,000 tinatanong namin sino yun, nasaan yun, saan kayo? Hindi namin alam yun. Bakit wala kayo mapakita?” he added.
(They claim a 27,000 figure and we are asking who were these, where they came from…We don’t know…)
Panelo, who is also Duterte’s chief legal counsel, said police who have committed abuses during operations were being filed charges.
“You know, for every police operation at [there’s a fatality], automatically, [they will be charged]. Dinidemanda agad, eh, yung involved. Kasi may homicide (Because there’s a homicide case), eh. Kaya recorded lahat yun (That’s why these were all recorded),” he said./ac