Inalmahan ni Kalookan Bishop Cardinal Pablo “Ambo” Virgilio David ang pahayag ni Senate President Alan Peter Cayetano kaugnay sa giyera kontra droga.
Matatandaang sa isang Facebook Live kamakailan, pinangatwiranan ni Cayetano na ang kampanya kontra droga ni dating Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte ay kampanya para sa karapatang pantao.
"It really destroys families and communities, so for many of those who were on the side of declaring war on drugs, it was not about extrajudicial killings because we do not excuse that, because ang sinasabi nga natin, you have to do it the right way," anang Senate President.
Maki-Balita: Drug war ni FPRRD, isang 'pro-life campaign'—SP Cayetano-Balita
Ngunit sa Facebook post ni Cardinal Ambo noong Linggo, Mayo 24, sinabi niyang alam dapat ni Cayetano na sa ilalim ng international law, hindi protektado ng free speech ang mga pampublikong pahayag na ikinukuwadro ang extrajudicial killings bilang pro-life.
LPA sa labas ng bansa, may tsansang maging bagyo
“They can constitute ‘instigation’ or ‘aiding and abetting’ crimes against humanity under Article 25 of the Rome Statute, when such words provide moral support that emboldens perpetrators and grants them a sense of impunity,” saad ni Cardinal Ambo.
Dagdag pa niya, “Words have consequences. Words have victims. And in international criminal law, words have accountability.”
Matatandaang nauna nang sinabi ni human rights lawyer at assistant to counsel sa International Criminal Court (ICC) Atty. Kristina Conti na insulto ang pahayag ni Cayetano sa mga biktima ng war on drugs.
Maki-Balita: Depensa ni SP Cayetano sa FPRRD drug war, insulto sa mga namatay, nakulong na biktima—Atty. Conti
