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FALSE: Extrajudicial killings in PH are made-up by the opposition
Apr 30, 2021 7:01 PM PHT
Rappler.com
Rating: FALSE
The facts: Extrajudicial killings in the Philippines have been acknowledged, reported on, and condemned by rights groups and foreign governments, including the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Measurement Initiative, Human Rights Watch, the US Department of State, and the European Parliament.
Why we fact-checked this: The Facebook video with these claims have a combined total of 5,700 views and over 17,000 reactions.
Complete details:
In a video released by the Facebook page DU30WorldWide DDS on September 21, 2020, it was stated that extrajudicial killings (EJKs) in the Philippines are made-up by the opposition.
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Commissioner Gwen Pimentel-Gana likened the hospital situation in Metro Manila to “the plight of Mama Mary right before she gave birth to Jesus Christ and there was no room in the inn.”
“It pains me to even think about it,” she lamented.
She said she has been hearing stories of people waiting in hospital lobbies because there are no more rooms available. Other people have called countless contacts just to help them secure a spot in any hospital, but to no avail, she added.
In many instances, she pointed out that some people even drive from one hospital to another in search of rooms, but they were met with rejections.
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By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News
Published March 10, 2021 7:48pm The police s claims that suspects who died during operations were killed in “self-defense” must be probed by courts and not merely asserted by law enforcers, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) said Wednesday. Commissioner Gwen Pimentel Gana said the drug war killings being probed by the CHR have “often been marked by brazen and brutal deaths.” “Majority of the killings that CHR has analyzed involve victims who were allegedly killed because they fought back and initiated aggression during police operations the ‘nanlaban’ narrative mostly belonging to the civilian population,” she said in a statement.