{"id":168025,"date":"2018-06-27T00:27:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T04:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=168025"},"modified":"2018-06-27T00:27:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T04:27:27","slug":"drug-war-study-fails-to-verify-each-case-of-killing-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/27\/drug-war-study-fails-to-verify-each-case-of-killing-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug war study fails to verify each case of killing: Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roque pointed out that the universities simply \u201caccepted\u201d or assumed that the victims were killed because of the drug war but did not verify them one by one. ALBERT ALCAIN\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— The inter-university study that showed that the poor are the most vulnerable in the Duterte administration\u2019s war on drugs did not verify each case of the so-called drug-related killing, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque made this remark after a study conducted by top universities — the Ateneo School of Government, De La Salle University, and University of the Philippines Diliman — showed that there were 5,021 drug-related killings from May 10, 2016 to Sept. 29, 2017.<\/p>\n

The schools teamed up with the Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism at Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>\n

The study, which collected data from various media organizations, also showed that most of those killed were poor.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng problema ho dito sa<\/em>\u00a0study\u00a0na ito, siguro hindi ko po talaga ikukuwestyun na talagang mahihirap ang mga napapatay<\/em>\u00a0(The problem with this study is, I\u2019m not questioning that it\u2019s the poor getting killed),\u201d Roque said in a radio interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cPero ang kuwestyun dito is: talaga ba silang napatay dahil sa<\/em>\u00a0war on drugs. So,\u00a0iyon po ang hindi naman tiningnan ng<\/em>\u00a0study\u00a0na ito<\/em>\u00a0(But my question is: Were they really killed because of the war on drugs? That\u2019s what the study didn\u2019t look into),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Roque pointed out that the universities simply \u201caccepted\u201d or assumed that the victims were killed because of the drug war but did not verify them one by one.<\/p>\n

\u201cTinanggap lang nila na ito diumano iyong mga napatay, pero ang mas maganda sanang ginawa ng mga dalubhasa ay iniisa-isa<\/em>\u00a0(They merely accepted that they were allegedly killed, but it would have been better if experts verified them one by one),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Palace spokesperson also noted that the recommendations made by the universities to treat drug addiction as a public health issue is already being undertaken by the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala naman pong pagkakaiba doon sa<\/em>\u00a0substantive recommendation\u00a0ng<\/em>\u00a0Ateneo\u00a0doon sa ginagawa ng gobyerno ngayon<\/em>\u00a0(There\u2019s nothing different with the substantive recommendation of Ateneo from what the government is doing now),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Moreover, he said that there was no value added from the study since data were culled from media reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cSa akin po, walang<\/em>\u00a0value added\u00a0pagdating doon sa<\/em>\u00a0secondary materials.\u00a0Eh ang inaasahan ko sa mga dalubhasa ay gagamit sila ng mga<\/em>primary figures\u00a0na<\/em>\u00a0verified\u00a0nang sa ganoon ay maasahan natin iyang<\/em>\u00a0conclusion (To me, there\u2019s no value added when it comes to the secondary materials. I was expecting experts to use primary figures verified so that they could arrive at a conclusion),\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPero kung ganitong pagka kinuha nila sa<\/em>\u00a0media\u00a0at alam naman natin na ang<\/em>\u00a0media\u00a0minsan eh kukunin din sa<\/em>\u00a0another source\u00a0at hindi doon sa<\/em>\u00a0primary source talaga,\u00a0eh<\/em>\u00a0up to question\u00a0iyong numero mismo<\/em>\u00a0(But if it\u2019s like this that they got their source from media and we know that media also gets data from another source and not from the primary source, so the numbers are up to question),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Roque stressed that there is nothing new with the finding that the poor are most vulnerable in the drug war since shabu is considered \u201ca poor man\u2019s drug.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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