{"id":155761,"date":"2018-03-09T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155761"},"modified":"2018-03-09T20:16:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T01:16:08","slug":"british-solon-says-uk-may-have-aided-ph-drug-war-through-spyware-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/09\/british-solon-says-uk-may-have-aided-ph-drug-war-through-spyware-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"British solon says UK may have aided PH drug war through spyware sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Official Parliamentary portrait of Lloyd Russel-Moyle in June 2017 (Photo By Chris McAndrew – https:\/\/api20170418155059.azure-api.net\/photo\/xXTvcHDg.jpeg?crop=MCU_3:4&quality=80&download=trueGallery: https:\/\/beta.parliament.uk\/media\/xXTvcHDg, CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A British Member of Parliament (MP) slammed the United Kingdom (UK) government for being \u201ccomplicit\u201d in the alleged extrajudicial killings in the President Rodrigo Roa Duterte\u2019s campaign to eradicate illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

Lloyd Russel-Moyle in an interview with ANC said that in 2016, the UK sold almost 11 million pesos worth of hi-tech spyware.<\/p>\n

The Philippines\u2019 purchase included International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI)-Catchers, devices that are designed to eavesdrop on phone conversations and internet activity surveillance tools.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe president has been referred to the international criminal court (ICC) for crimes against humanity for the way he has dealt with some elected officials and other people,\u201d he said, adding that it was \u201cin the most brutal way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the British government has been selling spyware and other forms of weaponry to the Filipino government,\u201d he continued in the same interview.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, according to Russel-Moyle, Brittain released a report in 2016 which listed the Philippines as a country \u2018of concern.\u2019<\/p>\n

Citing this report, he said that this means their government has to \u201cmonitor closely and limit weapon sales\u201d to the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t seem to have done that and therefore if those sales are aiding the crimes that the President is committing, we are then complicit in that process,\u201d he said in the ANC interview.<\/p>\n

In a similar statement on February, Russel-Moyle who is also a member of the committees on arms export controls of the government told the Guardian that this move makes the British government \u201ccomplicit in the deaths of thousands of Filipinos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sad case shows that our arms export control regime is broken. The government is failing in its basic legal duty,\u201d he further said.<\/p>\n

In his interview with ANC, he also said that it is a very difficult task to monitor all sales to countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that is why we have a criteria that says that we should presume against selling if the country is engaged in repressive acts and a referral to the ICC is an indication that the government has engaged not in legitimate war on drugs but illegitimate war on drugs that is being executed in a very brutal and opportune way,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Russel-Moyle then said that he will raise the concern to the House of Parliament and House of Questions to scrutinize and \u201cstop the sales that might be in breach of the consolidated criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I will raise this to the House of parliament. I will raise this to the house of questions and we will continue to scrutinize to stop the sales that might in breach of the consolidated criteria,” he said.<\/p>\n

On February 8, the Palace confirmed that the ICC was set to conduct a preliminary examination on the President and the war on drugs.<\/p>\n

(Read:\u00a0ICC to conduct \u2018preliminary examination\u2019 vs. Duterte, PH war on drugs<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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