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“We have noticed, and it’s frustrating if we are being honest, the post-martial law reports of Amnesty International… it is the same issue over and over again,” Wilnor Papa, activism and mobilization manager of AI Philippines, said during the first leg of the 2024 State of the World’s Human Rights Philippine launch in Baguio City.
Human rights watchdog Karapatan has recorded 89 victims of extrajudicial killings , 13 enforced disappearances, 122 Lawyer Romel Daguimol, Commission on Human Rights-Cordillera director, said documenting and building cases on EJKs is difficult, whether drug-related or not. He said that while the CHR successfully documented cases, these are only a few, and all are still pending in court.
In the Cordillera, the notoriety of the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs” was highlighted when two members of the Philippine National Police Cordillera Regional Drug Enforcement Unit wereAsked about the status of CHR’s investigation, Daguimol declined to provide updates, citing data privacy. According to Papa, red-tagging has become the most common means to suppress dissent in the country.
CHR-Cordillera has recorded 30 cases of red tagging in Baguio City involving activists and members of the press during the Duterte administration and seven under the Marcos Jr. presidency. Meanwhile, data from the CHR National Protection Cluster shows that 41 were media-related out of the 140 cases of red tagging recorded from July 2016 to July 2023. Of the seven complaints investigated, state agents were involved in six incidents.