DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / 13 Mar) – The militant Bayan Muna party list group on Tuesday doubted special courts formed to handle extra-judicial killings in the Philippines would result to fair and credible rulings.
The Supreme Court had ordered all these special regional trial courts to resolve the cases in 90 days.
Bayan Muna Rep. Joel Virador said the cases of summary killings in the country are not ordinary hat could be resolved in a matter of 90 days.
“With due respect to our RTC judges, their capacity and honesty are not in question in this resolve to create the most effective body that will look into the cases. What is clear to have been undermined in this resolution is the fact that the cases do not only involve the families of the victims and the witnesses to the killings.”
"The SC’s order will only disregard the recommendations of the UN and Melo reports. Worst, we see this resolution as a way to hasten the exoneration of the crimes’ real culprits," Virador said.
Virador was referring to the investigations on extra-judicial killings conducted in the Philippines by U.N. representative Philip Alston and the independent Melo Commission which linked soldiers in most of the murder of political activists.
More than 900 activists had been murdered in the Philippines since President Gloria Arroyo rose to power in 2001. (Mindanao Examiner)
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