Senator Alan Peter Cayetano and incoming Foreign Affairs Secretary insists on “true” data on extra-judicial killings, saying he is willing to be jailed if he is wrong.
The senator made the statement when he defended the country’s human rights record as the head of the Philippine delegation in Geneva earlier this week.
“I’m willing to resign, to be jailed, to be exiled if what I presented was wrong, or at the very least if I intentionally misled anyone,” he told reporters in Cambodia.
Reports on extra-judicial killings have been continuously circulated since President Rodrigo Duterte started his administration’s campaign against drugs. But for Cayetano, EJK is only a term used by different groups and the media.
“All of the things I presented is based on fact, based on actual numbers. So remember, they have long been saying that there are a lot of extrajudicial killings,” he said.
He said there were 11,000 to 16,000 EJKs each year before Duterte’s term if such broad term will be used.
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