It is by far the boldest and most shameless show of blind support for DU30’s contempt of any criticism of his naked violations of human rights. He also renounced all grants and assistance from the EU because of alleged conditionalities related to human rights. Shooting human rights workersIn recent days, DU30 told the police to shoot human rights workers who would “interfere” in their “work.” “Work” usually involved killing alleged drug suspects while reportedly “resisting arrest”. In just 13 months of the DU30 presidency, some 14,100 human rights incidents were reported to have occurred. He is now under international attack precisely for his human rights record, the latest being the statement of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, Prince of Jordan, at the 36th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Source: Manila Times September 14, 2017 17:26 UTC