“It’s not just the pandemic lockdown we are worried about, it is also the drug war,” Conde said. “You know the pandemic actually worsened the environment that was created by the drug war since 2016. Drug war should’ve been suspendedConde urged the country’s law enforcement to temporarily halt the drug war while Filipinos continue to bear the brunt of the pandemic. The New York-based human rights watchdog cited a report wherein two children in Cavite province were locked in a coffin for violating curfew. In a previous report, the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) revealed that it was swamped with complaints of human rights abuses during the early months of the lockdown.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 28, 2020 23:15 UTC