The government criticized a compilation of reports by the US State Department on the human rights situation worldwide, including an extensive entry on the Philippines. | dexcabalzaINQ & NCorralesINQ /PDI
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said: “Absent these data, the accusations are nothing but innuendos and [a] witch hunt. At worst, the State Department has become a gullible victim of black propaganda.”
He said the IAS “has taken an aggressive stance in handling and investigating police personnel who were meted with administrative charges.” “It will be unfair for the PNP to be regarded as an organization that tolerates impunity and human rights abuses,” he said.The Country Reports were published on Tuesday by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor of the US State Department.“There were credible [accounts] that members of the security forces committed numerous abuses,” the report said, particularly citing the AFP and the PNP.
But the report also said “Concerns about police impunity continued following the increase in killings by police in 2016. Significant concerns also persisted about impunity for other security forces, civilian national and local government officials, and powerful business and commercial figures.”
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