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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.

Read more: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1052039/red-leaders-arrest-hit-evidence-planted#ixzz5Z3Gy6dfy

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
Last modified on Thu 2 Mar 2017 22.44 AEDT

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 

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.”

Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/117746/the-rot-at-the-core-is-dutertismo#ixzz5ZoEBOWN1

“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.”

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