Facts and figures on summary killings consequent to the Duterte administration’s bloody war on illegal drugs do not lie, but the government mouthpiece does.

Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque cannot consign into oblivion the mounting bodies of extrajudicial killings by merely incanting that the Duterte administration strictly adheres to the tenets of human rights.

Surveys show that even those supportive of the President’s campaign against drug peddlers and users condemn EJK’s and also do not believe the government’s alibi of “nanlaban”.

United Nations rapporteurs on human rights protection are not interfering on local affairs when they criticize Duterte’s dismal record on human rights because the protection and promotion of human rights are continuing global concerns.

EDCEL C. LAGMAN