WITH the ongoing debate over alleged extra-judicial killings arising from the Duterte administration’s war against illegal drugs, Senator Richard J. Gordon slammed the deafening silence in the past on killings perpetrated by teams on motorcycles.
Despite the proliferation of riding in tandem killings, Gordon said there has been little noise about the issue over the last ten years and questioned the Commission on Human Rights about its marked silence on the matter.
“We were saying unexplained killings, let me ask the Commission on Human Rights. How many were killed by these riding in tandem here in our country? How come I don’t hear any noise that has been going on for the last 10 years?… People riding in tandem shooting people down and we just keep quiet,” he said.
The senator noted that due to the high number of incidents of journalists’ killings, the Philippine has been proclaimed as the murder capital for journalists in the whole world.
He related that judges, lawyers and policemen have also become easy targets for riding in tandem assassins and yet there has been no reaction from the commission.
