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RED LEADER’S ARREST HIT: ‘EVIDENCE PLANTED’
By: Mariejo S. Ramos, Matthew Reysio-Cruz - @inquirerdotnet Philippine
Daily Inquirer / 05:30 AM November 09, 2018
[PHOTO] DEFIANT DETAINEE National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace
consultant Vicente Ladlad raises his fist as he is led by Chief Supt. Joselito
Esquivel (right), chief of the Quezon City police, into Camp Karingal in Quezon
City on Thursday. – NIÑO JESUS ORBETA
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant Vicente
Ladlad was arrested on illegal firearms charges on Thursday in a midnight raid
that his wife and lawyers said reeked of evidence-planting and political
persecution.
Ladlad was the third NDFP consultant to be arrested since peace talks
with communist rebels were terminated by
President Duterte last year.
Police and military operatives said they seized from Ladlad and an
elderly couple, Alberto and Virginia Villamor, “high-powered firearms,
ammunition, grenades and several subversive documents” during a raid on a house
in Novaliches, Quezon City.
Police laid out the alleged haul—an AK47 with bayonet, an M16A1 assault
rifle, two .45-caliber and one 9mm pistols, several loaded magazines, four
grenades and subversive documents—from the raid on a table at the National
Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) conference room.
But Ladlad’s wife, Fides Lim, denounced the presentation as all a
“setup, show and publicity stunt.”
“Everything is fake,” Lim shouted as officers barred her from entering the room and denied access to
her husband at Camp Bagong Diwa, the NCRPO headquarters, where Ladlad was
booked.
Director General Oscar Albayalde, the Philippine National Police chief,
hailed Ladlad’s arrest as the “successful result of our anticriminality
operations” against loose firearms.
Impossible
Lim, however, said her husband was suffering from chronic asthma, which
had degenerated into emphysema, and a severe heart condition that made it
impossible for him to operate the firearms.
She challenged the authorities to check for fingerprints on all the
weapons that were displayed. “They will not find a single speck of his
fingerprints in any of that trove,” she said.
One of Ladlad’s lawyers, Kristina Conti of the Public Interest Law
Center, said the grenades were planted to justify an additional charge of
illegal possession of explosives, a nonbailable offense, against him.
According to Albayalde, allegations that the police are planting
evidence, which is unlawful, have been the “basic alibi” of suspects caught
red-handed.
“We will never do this. We will never tolerate this if this is being
done,” Albayalde said.
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DUTERTE: ‘WE PLANTED EVIDENCE…(AND) THE INTRIGUES’
DUTERTE: ‘WE PLANTED EVIDENCE…(AND) THE INTRIGUES’
By: John Nery - @jnery_newsstand
INQUIRER.net / 09:01 AM August 21, 2016
In his early morning news conference Sunday, President Duterte provided
a glimpse of what he said he had learned during his 10 years as a city
prosecutor: To bend the law to get the
desired outcome.
“I’ve learned a lot during my prosecution days,” the President said. “We planted evidence. We arrested
persons but we released them. But [the President then switches to an example]
telling him that it was this person who squealed on him and then when he goes
out but killing we would say it was this fellow who really did it, who did you
in.”
He explained the reason for the tactic: “We first planted the intrigues, so that we would know where they
were or where they came from.”
The President’s clinical view of what prosecutors and policemen need to
do to fight crime is counter to what the law allows.
PHILIPPINES POLICE PLANT EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY KILLINGS IN DRUG WAR, SAYS
REPORT
Human Rights Watch says President Rodrigo Duterte bears ultimate
responsibility for the deaths of thousands
Associated Press
Thu 2 Mar 2017 16.43 AEDT
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A human rights watchdog has accused Philippines police of falsifying evidence to justify unlawful killings
in the government’s war on drugs that has caused more than 7,000 deaths,
and pointed the finger at president
Rodrigo Duterte as being ultimately
responsible.
Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday that Duterte and other senior officials
instigated and incited the killings of drug suspects in a campaign that
could amount to crimes against humanity.
The United Nations should create an independent investigation to
determine responsibility and ensure accountability, the report said.
…The report said police have repeatedly carried out extrajudicial
killings of drug suspects, then falsely claimed self-defence and planted guns,
spent bullets or drugs on the bodies.
“Our investigations into the Philippine drug war found that police
routinely kill drug suspects in cold blood and then cover up their crime by
planting drugs and guns at the scene,” said Peter Bouckaert, emergencies
director at Human Rights Watch and author of the report. “President Duterte’s
role in these killings makes him ultimately responsible for the deaths of
thousands.”
Human Rights Watch said masked gunmen taking part in killings appeared
to be working closely with the police, casting doubt on government claims that
vigilantes or rival gangs are behind majority of the killings. It said in
several instances it investigated, suspects in police custody were later found
dead and classified by police as “found bodies” or “deaths under
investigation.”
The report draws heavily on interviews in metropolitan Manila with 28
family members of victims, witnesses to police killings, journalists and human
rights activists. It also references initial police reports of killings, which
Human Rights Watch said its field research consistently contradicted.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/philippines-police-plant-evidence-to-justify-killings-in-drug-war-says-report
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“Degrade the rule of law and reap the consequences of a lawless society.”
“Under a tyranny the law is misused as an instrument of injustice, persecution, repression, and oppression.”
https://poetryofgonzalinhodacosta.blogspot.com/2018/07/politics.html
THE ROT AT THE CORE IS DUTERTISMO
By: John Nery - @jnery_newsstand
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:07 AM November 27, 2018
The last few episodes in the current season of that heartbreaking
series called Philippine democracy have been harrowing. The following
“Highlights” were particularly dispiriting; they gave us a close-up look at the
rot eating away at the core of the democratic project.
…the brutal murder of three members of the Ado family — the spouses
Romeo and Christine and their 11-year-old child Romeo Jr. — by Caloocan
policeman Jerry Antonio (as identified by the Quezon City Police District).
They were killed in their sleep, allegedly because the spouses had filed a
criminal complaint against Antonio. A pouch containing two sachets of shabu was
allegedly found on Christine’s person, but what are the odds that this
“evidence” was planted? This mass murder came on the heels of the Philippine
National Police’s melodrama over its supposedly unfair portrayal in the hit TV
series, “FPJ’s Ang Probinsyano.”
“Degrade the rule of law and reap the consequences of a lawless society.”
“Under a tyranny the law is misused as an instrument of injustice, persecution, repression, and oppression.”
https://poetryofgonzalinhodacosta.blogspot.com/2018/07/politics.html
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