“This senseless and unjust violence must stop,” said vice president Leni Robredo in a statement released on her website yesterday, Jul 20.
This is her second statement condemning the spate of extrajudicial killings that has been reported in the past weeks.
“We should not foster a culture of fear in our society — one that tacitly accepts death and one that does not give respect to human life,” she said.
The vice president again called on authorities to “seriously investigate these killings and bring those responsible to justice.”
“The rise in extra judicial killings is a call for all of us to uphold every person’s right to due process. Each Filipino who was killed over an alleged crime was denied their right to a fair trial, and those lives may never be returned to their loved ones,” she added.
Robredo’s statement last week had appears to have a friendlier tone.
(Read: VP Leni calls for probe into drug-related killings)
On Monday night, Ateneo High School Teacher Emmanuel Jose Pavia was killed by an unidentified gunman. Investigations about the incident are still ongoing.
