‘THIS IS A PARTIAL VICTORY, BUT NOT THE END.’ This is what Senator Risa Hontiveros had to say after a dismissed Caloocan cop was found guilty by a regional trial court for the 2017 killings of teenagers Carl Angelo Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman. READ:
Though “laudable,” Hontiveros said it should not have taken more than five years for the country’s justice system to administer a sentence against Perez.
“There are tens of thousands more families like Carl’s and Kulot’s awaiting their day in court. No one should have to wait for five years for justice to be served,” she lamented in a statement. “Like I said in 2017, when I was protecting the witnesses in Kian delos Santos’s investigation, no victim of state violence should have to feel that the law is not behind them,” she said.convicted for his murderDismayed by the slow resolution of cases of alleged extrajudicial killings in the country, Hontiveros expressed hopes that the International Criminal Court investigation could help expedite justice for drug war victims.
“International cooperation can only expedite justice for thousands of Filipinos. ICC’s help must be welcome and necessary,” she then said, reiterating her call for the administration to cooperate with the ICC and to rejoin the Rome Statute as soon as possible.where he and his allies have been accused of committing crimes against humanity in relation to their bloody war on drugs.“We continue to demand a full accounting of the extrajudicial killings under the previous administration.
“We must hold those truly responsible accountable for taking people’s lives away w/ their hands. It is time to stop emboldening perpetrators. The toxic culture of impunity of the previous administration must stop pervading our society. They are not scot-free,” she added.Your subscription has been successful.
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