In a recently published report, the commission mandated by the Constitution to investigate state abuses said that its probes were “hampered by the predilection and uncooperativeness” of government agencies involved in the war on drugs. READ:
CHR also noted the issuance of an advisory from the PNP after this order from Duterte. In the advisory, PNP said that it can deny the commission access to documents based on “exceptions on the constitutional guarantee of the people’s right to information.”
In the other 500 drug-related cases it analyzed, CHR noted that police records were also incomplete. They were able to obtain some of these reports through families of victims, or in some cases, by jotting down details when police officers allowed investigators to check the blotter records. Over all, CHR said that it finds that the Duterte government has “failed in its obligation to respect and protect human rights of every citizen, in particular, victims of drug-related killings.”
The Duterte government’s stonewalling comes despite an earlier pronouncement made by the Department of Justice before the United Nations Human Rights Council regarding the “DOJ’s statement came also at a time when it announced the creation of an inter-agency panel that sought to review the drug war killings.
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