No improvement of GPH human rights record under Noynoy
http://www.karapatan.org
May 5, 2012

Human rights group Karapatan today belied the statement of Dept. of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Secretary Albert del Rosario who said that the “significant decline of extrajudicial killings in the country,” is the result of the actions taken by the Philippine government “to improve the human rights situation in the country.”

Del Rosario made the statement during his lecture in Washington Wednesday, as he urged the United States government to take out “improved human rights record” as a condition for increased military aid to the Philippines.

Cristina Palabay, spokesperson of Karapatan, said that “if del Rosario considers the 76 victims of extrajudicial killings as an indication of a better human rights environment, he must be either deluded or simply covering up the inadequacies and liability of the government to stop and resolve the many cases of human rights violations under Aquino’s watch.”

Karapatan cited the case of Aklan municipal councilor Fernando Baldomero, the first incident of extrajudicial killing under Aquino, as among the many unresolved cases. It has been almost two years since the killing but the case filed by Baldomero’s relatives is currently archived at the Aklan Regional Trial Court, with the perpetrators still scot-free.

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