De Lima: Dissect ‘Gordon Report’ on Duterte’s drug war

Detained Senator Leila de Lima on Tuesday urged her colleagues to strictly scrutinize the “Gordon Report” that tackles the killings under the Duterte administration’s drug war as it is due for plenary and consider her dissenting report during deliberations.

Following the recent death of Allan Rafael, a former overseas Filipino worker who died under the custody of police, De Lima said there “really seems to be no end to these senseless and brutal killings”

Rafael, a cancer patient, died while under the custody of the Manila Police Dsitrict’s Barbosa Police Community Precinct. He was reportedly tortured to admit that he was involved in illegal drugs. The police denied the allegation.

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“Nakarating sa akin na itinutulak na sa plenaryo ng Senado ang kontrobersyal na Gordon Report mula sa Committee on Justice and Human Rights ukol sa unang bugso ng patayan noong 2016, na nagsabing hindi raw state-sponsored ang mga patayan at wala raw kinalaman si Duterte sa mga ito,” De Lima said in a statement.

(I’ve learned that the controversial Gordon Report is now being pushed to the plenary by the Committee on Justice and Human Rights on the initial wave of killings in 2016, which claimed that the killings were not state-sponsored and that Duterte does not have a hand on them.)

“Hinihikayat ko ang mga kasama kong Senador na himayin ang Gordon Report at ikonsidera ang mga obserbasyon sa aking Dissenting Report noong Disyembre 2016,” she added.

(I’m appealing to my colleagues to dissect the Gordon Report and to consider my observations in my Dissenting Report in December 2016.) /kga