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Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 5:42 pm
“The February 24, 2021, resolution by 47 senior police
and government officials in the Cordillera Region calling
for the notorious ‘Oplan Tokhang’ to be deployed against
‘known left-leaning personalities in the government,
media, and other entities’ demonstrates that the Duterte
government is brazenly defiant of its human rights
obligations”, said Mr Peter Murphy of the International
Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines
(ICHRP).
This Resolution was made at the same time
that
Justice Secretary Guevarra was telling the United
Nations Human Rights Council that “the PH strongly
emphasizes its legal and judicial system, its domestic
accountability mechanisms are functioning as they
SunStar Journos, groups slam ‘Tokhang’ campaign vs leftists, media
TOKHANG FOR LEFTISTS. A copy of the resolution signed by all members of the Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee in the Cordillera Administrative Region allowing the conduct of “Oplan Tokhang” against “left-leaning personalities” in the government and media, among other entities. (Contributed photo)
+ February 25, 2021 THE Regional Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee in the Cordillera Administrative Region drew flak from human rights advocates and members of the media after passing a resolution allowing the conduct of “Oplan Tokhang” against “left-leaning personalities” in the government and media, among other entities.
In the resolution, Tokhang will be used “to convince left-leaning personalities to return to the folds of the government and dissuade them from further supporting the Marxist-Maoist inspired rebellion and its known fron