The plan of presumptive president Rodrigo Duterte to wipe out criminals, including the ‘double hanging’ until the head is severed from the body, might turn off foreign investors and set back the country’s economic gains. This is according to a former human rights official Loretta Ann Rosales.
She emphasized that the country has authorized eight human rights treaties, including one against “torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” The Philippines also supports the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights which states that “no one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his life.”
Rosales claims that Duterte’s disregard for the rule of law might eventually have an effect to the economy. “If the culture of violence is encouraged under the guise of trying to eradicate criminality by killing criminals—who are just suspects by the way—that is going to discourage foreign investments from coming in,” she said.
She added: “President Duterte should think twice about his usual efforts to try to eradicate crime the fastest way possible because it’s going to have an impact on our relations with other nations,”
Source: ABS-CBN
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