The human rights protector is the human rights violator.This is deplorable. Officials of an agency tasked to protect the Filipino citizens’ human rights are being accused of human rights violations.
VERA Files’ Jonathan De Santos reported last week that two former employees of the Commission on Human Rights filed a complaint with the Ombudsman against Commissioners Cecilia Rachel “Coco” Quisumbing and Norberto Dela Cruz for violating the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act and the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees.
Noong Marso pa pala unang pumunta itong si Ana Evangelista sa Commission on Human Rights at nagsampa ng kaso dahil sa pagkawala ng kanyang asawang si Darius, suspek daw sa panghu-hold up pagkatapos mahuli ng mga pulis.
Meron din ibang pamilya na nagsasabing ang nakikita sa video na pinalabas ng ABS-CBN ng isang taong tino-torture (tinalian ang kanyang ari ay hinihila, pinipilipit tuwing hindi gusto ng pulis ang sagot sa kanilang tanong) ay ang kanilang kaanak na si Vicente Obrigo na napatay sa encounter sa mga pulis noong isang linggo.
Iba-ibang klaseng torture ang nakita natin nitong nakaraang linggo.
Una yung kahindik-hindik na video ng turture sa isang hinahalaang holdupper sa Asuncion precinct station sa Tondo, Manila.
Ang pangalawa naman ay ang pagwawala ni Commissioner Coco Quisumbing ng Commission on Human Rights sa media.
Makikita sa video ang isang payat na lalaki ang namimilipit sa sakit na nasa sementong sahig. Tinalian ng kanyang mga torturer ang kanyang ari at tuwing may tinatanong at hindi nagugustuhan ang sagot, hinilia ang tali kaya namimilipit sa sakit.
It looks like there’s another kind of torture reporters who are covering the Commission on Human Rights have to suffer with Commissioner Coco Quisumbing.
When is Etta Rosales going to assume the position of chair?
Human Rights Commissioner Cecilia Quisumbing yesterday scolded a radio reporter for refusing to go into the bathroom with her, the only place, she said, where she could grant him the interview he had requested.
DzMM reporter Dennis Datu became the target of Quisumbing’s wrath when he did not comply with her instruction to go inside the bathroom so she could update him on the torture case the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) was investigating.