MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to arm anti-crime volunteers and groups would be “another bloody disaster waiting to happen,” Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said Monday.
Zarate said that such mindset “will only make the streets more dangerous because this will usher in a rise in extrajudicial killings and vigilantism.”
“If this is allowed then incidents involving gun abuse — such as Jonel Nuezca in December 2020 and Hensie Zinampan earlier this year — would grow exponentially. This will only worsen the already discredited but bloody ‘nanlaban’ claim of the police,” Zarate said in a statement.
Instead, Zarate said policemen and soldie…
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