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De Lima slams another killing of lawyer, unabated summary executions
Opposition Senator Leila M. de Lima has bewailed the killing of another lawyer by unidentified gunmen in Cebu last Dec. 17, whose death adds to the long list of legal professionals killed under the Duterte regime.
De Lima, a lawyer herself and a known human rights defender here and abroad, said the culture of violence and killings propagated by Mr. Duterte should stop now. I vehemently condemn the killing yesterday of another lawyer, Atty. Ma. Concepcion Landero-Ole, in Danao, Cebu, she said in her Dispatch from Crame No. 1001. The culture of killings and disregard for human life as sown by the Duterte regime continues to reap its grim toll almost daily, further desensitizing us to what in any civilized society should be an abominable and monstrous state of affairs that cannot simply be allowed to continue, she added.
Senator Leila de Lima (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
De Lima issued the denial after Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. of the National Task Force to End Local Armed Conflic wrote an opinion piece entitled “‘Tis no Leila’s dilemma that communists have infiltrated Congress” published Saturday.
“Gen. Parlade, you seem so worried about my recent statements condemning the red-tagging of members of the Makabayan bloc and the recent killings of NDF peace consultants (Yes, I call them peace consultants),” De Lima said.
“Is it that bothersome for you to know that there are still people who believe in the right to life of every human being?” she asked.
Dispatch from Crame No. 1001:
Sen. Leila M. de Lima s comments on the killing of another lawyer, Baby Maria Concepcion Landero-Ole
12/18/20
I vehemently condemn the killing yesterday of another lawyer, Atty. Ma. Concepcion Landero-Ole, in Danao, Cebu.
The culture of killings and disregard for human life as sown by the Duterte regime continues to reap its grim toll almost daily, further desensitizing us to what in any civilized society should be an abominable and monstrous state of affairs that cannot simply be allowed to continue.
That all of these killings continue on top of Duterte s incompetent and negligent handling of the COVID-19 pandemic only shows that spreading death is the only core competence of this regime, that it kills both by negligence and by intention simply because it does not care for the human lives lost in what has become for the Philippines a way of death instead of a way of life.