With an upcoming UN review of the human rights situation in the Philippines, government officials are renewing their call to shift focus away from the death toll of its drug war and towards its other “achievements.”
Albayalde also said that they have filed 376 cases against policemen over deaths in drug operations. They have also fired 423 policemen because of their involvement in illegal drugs and sacked another 2,400 for extortion.
Some entries are duplicated, while some incidents in the PNP’s running tally are still being verified by the PDEA, she said.Recently, the Presidential Communications Operations Office had to defend itself from a report whichIn 2017, it listed the 16,355 homicide cases under investigation as one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s key accomplishments under a section on the drug war, along with other data about the campaign against illegal drugs.
But for Presidential Human Rights Committee Secretariat Executive Director Undersecretary Severo Catura, there are"so many positive things" for the media to report aside from the drug war death toll. “If you compare that to the persons that we arrested, of the more than 240,000 this is merely 2.7 percent — and this is not being highlighted,” he said.“But it happened in a campaign that involved a grossly expansive problem that needs to be addressed accordingly,” Catura said.
Catura, who was part of the Philippines' delegation to the UNHRC, said they do not want a country-specific resolution because the country already undergoes periodic reviews under the UN.
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