{"id":224165,"date":"2019-07-23T22:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224165"},"modified":"2019-07-23T22:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T02:54:38","slug":"govt-not-stopping-foreign-probe-on-drug-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/23\/govt-not-stopping-foreign-probe-on-drug-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t not stopping foreign probe on drug campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark after a recent survey showed that majority of Filipinos believe that the administration should allow international organizations like the United Nations (UN) to conduct an investigation on human rights violations in the drug war. (File Photo<\/a>: Office of the Presidential Spokesperson\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The government is not stopping international organizations from investigating the Duterte administration\u2019s campaign against illegal drugs but emphasized that it could still be considered an \u201cassault to sovereignty\u201d, Malaca\u00f1ang said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made this remark after a recent survey showed that majority of Filipinos believe that the administration should allow international organizations like the United Nations (UN) to conduct an investigation on human rights violations in the drug war.<\/p>\n

A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey showed that 60 percent of Filipinos agree with the statement: “The government should not block the investigation of international groups, like the United Nations, into the killing by the Philippine police of so many drug suspects who supposedly fought back.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHindi naman natin ini-stop eh. Ang<\/em>\u00a0reaction\u00a0natin is<\/em>\u00a0(We\u2019re not stopping them. Our reaction is): you cannot do that to us, because we are a sovereign state,\u201d Panelo said in a Palace briefing.<\/p>\n

Panelo reiterated that international groups should not interfere because Philippine courts were functioning.<\/p>\n

He blamed critics of the Duterte administration for making the public believe in the premise that drug-related deaths were state-sanctioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cKasi nga iyon nga ang banat ng mga kritiko na hinahadlangan natin. Naniniwala sila doon sa kritiko na akala nila humahadlang tayo;<\/em>\u00a0and yet Filipinos are\u00a0saying na tama naman iyong kanyang<\/em>\u00a0drug war,” (Because the critics claim we are obstructing. They believe in critics\u2019 claim and yet Filipinos are saying that his drug war is right),\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Panelo said the survey results will not change the administration\u2019s stance that the UN could not enter the Philippines to conduct an investigation on the drug war.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will not,\u00a0kasi nga<\/em>\u00a0(because) it\u2019s an assault on our sovereignty,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n

Panelo noted that the President does not see a need to convince the public to support its views against allowing UN to probe the crackdown on illegal drugs.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Panelo said if the UN is really serious in looking into the country\u2019s drug war, it should have first written a formal communication or inquiry asking for government data.<\/p>\n

He said the Duterte government is the only administration that has always responded to formal communications sent to its various offices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The government is not stopping international organizations from investigating the Duterte administration\u2019s campaign against illegal drugs but emphasized that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":197910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224166,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224165\/revisions\/224166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}