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CHR CHAIR SAYS GOVERNMENT SHOULD
DELIVER JUSTICE TO ALL VICTIMS OF DRUG WAR
COMMISSION on Human Rights ay follow through din, ibig sabihin “Of those 20 cases, isa pa lang
(CHR) chairperson Chito Gascon on lahat ng mga kaso na may pang-aabuso umabot sa korte,” Gascon said, referring
Wednesday called on the government bigyan din ng katarungan.” to the case of drug suspect JP Bertes
to deliver justice to all victims of police and his father Renato Bertes who were
abuse in the campaign against illegal Delos Santos died in one of the killed inside a Pasay City station in July
drugs. bloodiest weeks in the government’s last year.
war on illegal drugs with Caloocan
Speaking at a media forum in policemen claiming he was a drug Amid the spike in killings, the
Manila, Gascon said he welcomed runner who opened fire on them on Philippine National Police and the
President Rodrigo Duterte’s assurance August 16 to evade arrest. CHR on Tuesday agreed to conduct a
to the parents of slain teenager Kian joint review of the cases of suspected
Loyd Delos Santos that the case on CCTV footage and accounts of vigilante killings linked to the war on
the student’s killing will be resolved witnesses appear to contradict the illegal drugs.
as quickly as possible and abuses cops’ claims, sparking public outrage
committed during his administration over the campaign, which has already The PNP said the review can be
would not be tolerated. claimed thousands of lives since Duterte conducted either in the regional office
assumed his post in June last year. of the CHR or the police since the case
“The fact na humarap si Presidente, folders are with the investigators in the
pinakinggan sila at tutulungan sila at Gascon said the CHR is currently regions. n Marlly Rome C. Bondoc, LBG/KVD,
binigyan ng assurance is a good thing. investigating some 800 cases of
We should not begrudge that from unexplained killings attributed to the GMA News | Published July 28, 2017 9:30 AM
happening,” Gascon said. war on drugs.
Palace exec: Duterte won’t establish a revolutionary gov’t
“What we hope to see though is “We have a hundred of them na may
that after that meeting is may follow final investigation reports and in many HE may have broached the idea but an approach to resolving the country’s But the President made it clear that
through, may follow up. Ibig sabihin of these cases, we have found violations President Rodrigo Duterte is not about endemic and structural problems it was not an option he would take
siguraduhin na may katarungan sa of human rights. We have over 20 cases to put up a revolutionary government hindering genuine progress,” Abella himself.
kaso ni Kian at kami sa Commission on for which we recommended the filing during his term, a Malacañang said.
Human Rights ang panawagan namin of charges (against the suspects),” the spokesperson said Wednesday. “For the Philippines to really go up
CHR chief said. “However, PRRD made it clear that sabi ko ang kailangan ng mga tao is
In a statement, presidential he will not establish a revolutionary not martial law. Go for [sa]ginawa ni
spokesperson Ernesto Abella reiterated government under his administration,” Cory, revolutionary government. Pero
Duterte’s remarks and highlighted that he added. huwag kayong magtingin sa akin, hindi
he just mentioned a better way to solve ako pwede diyan… na you declare all
the country’s problems - than martial Before his new appointees in positions of the government vacant and
law. Malacañang on Tuesday, Duterte floated change all,” Duterte said. n Trisha Macas,
the establishment of a revolutionary
“The President’s [remark] about a government as a solution to corruption RSJ/KVD, GMA News | Published August 30, 2017
‘revolutionary government’ was just and problems in the bureaucracy.
1:16 PM

Trillanes urges colleagues: Join calls to set De Lima free
SENATOR Antonio Trillanes IV on no overt action done at all to merit her Trillanes also called on the Senate public
DOJ forms panel to probe raps Wednesday urged his colleagues to “right incarceration,” he said. order and dangerous drugs committee
vs. cops in Kian delos Santos slay the wrong” committed by the Duterte chaired by Senator Panfilo Lacson to
THE Department of Justice (DOJ) has parents will undergo preliminary administration against Senator Leila Trillanes said the Senate should express conduct an inquiry on the allegations of
de Lima by calling for her release from the same outrage it did in the case of drug lords against De Lima.
formed the panel of prosecutors that will investigation where the respondents will be detention. Superintendent Marvin Marcos, who was
able to walk out of detention after the Trillanes said summoning drug
look into the criminal complaints filed given a chance to air their side which the In a privilege speech, Trillanes said De criminal charges against him and the other personalities to a Senate probe is necessary
Lima’s continued detention over drug- policemen were downgraded. to prove that the Duterte administration
against policemen implicated in the killing prosecutors have to take into account on related charges is a “clear case of political coerced them to concoct stories against a
persecution.” “By any established standard, that is political opponent.
of teenage student Kian Loyd Delos Santos. deciding whether to dismiss the complaints injustice. Kaya ang aking apela sa aking
“Gaya nating lahat, hindi perpekto si mga kasamahan dito sa Senado, panahon De Lima has been detained at the PNP
Sen. De Lima pero alam natin, deep in our na para ituwid natin ang malaking Custodial Center in Camp Crame since
hearts, na hindi siya involved sa illegal pagkakamaling ito at sumama sa aking February over allegations that she was
drugs at lalo nang hindi siya drug queen. panawagan na palayain si Sen. Leila De involved in the illegal drug trade inside the
Hindi po siya criminal para tratuhin na Lima,” he said. national penitentiary.
parang isang criminal,” Trillanes said.
Trillanes said it was “time to do the The European Union, Inter-
“Pinaratangan lang siya. There was right thing.” Parliamentary Union, and International
Commission Jurists, have separately called
Senior Deputy State Prosecutor Severino or press charges in court. for De Lima’s release.

Gaña Jr., officer-in-charge at the Office of Policemen said that they killed Delos In May, the senator’s office said at least
five more organizations and coalitions sent
the Prosecutor General, designated on Santos during an anti-illegal drugs separate letters expressing their support
for her and her advocacies.
Tuesday Senior Assistant State Prosecutor operation on August 16 in Barangay 160,
The groups include the International
Tofel Austria, Assistant State Prosecutor Caloocan City after the teenager fired at Network of People Who Use Drugs
(INPUD), United Kingdom; Asia Catalyst,
Amanda Garcia and Associate Prosecution them as he was escaping. New York, USA; the Coalition of Asia Pacific
Regional Networks on HIV/AIDS, Thailand;
Attorney Moises Acayan as members of the Delos Santos’ family claimed that a Asian Network of People Who Use Drugs
(ANPUD), Thailand; and International Drug
panel. CCTV camera footage would prove that the Policy Consortium (IDPC), United Kingdom.
n Kathrina Charmaine Alvarez, RSJ/KVD,
Facing complaints for murder are teenager could not have run away as he was

relieved Caloocan City police station 7 head being dragged away by policemen after his

Chief Inspector Amor Cerillo, and the three apprehension.

cops involved in the operation, PO3 Arnel Police claim Delos Santos was a drug

Oares, PO1 Jerwin Cruz, and PO1 Jeremias runner and that his father and uncles

Pereda. were into the illegal drug trade, an

Oares, Cruz and Pereda were also accusation that has since been denied by

charged with torture. his family. n Virgil Lopez, NB/KVD, GMA News GMA News | Published August 30, 2017 4:33 PM

The complaints filed by Delos Santos’ | Published August 30, 2017 2:35 PM Updated 4:40 PM