MANILA, Philippines — Albay 1st District Rep. Edcel Lagman on Wednesday slammed Senator Ronaldo “Bato” dela Rosa after he defended President Rodrigo Duterte’s “kill, kill, kill” statements.
“There is no place for disastrous ‘hyperbole’ when the people’s human rights and civil liberties are at stake,” Lagman, a human rights lawyer, said in a statement
He added that Duterte’s “deadly” order resulted in the separate but “simultaneous extrajudicial killing of nine crusading activists in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) who were not even combatants.”
Dela Rosa, a former chief of the Philippine National Police and the chief architect of the Duterte administration’…
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