Extrajudicial Killings and Sham Investigation
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The presidential order forming the commission is widely seen more as a political gimmick rather than as a major step toward stopping the extrajudicial killings. It was meant to mollify public outrage over the killings and clear the constitutionally impaired presidency of possible accountability.
By the Policy Studies, Publication and Advocacy Program
Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG)
MANILA — Unless the Melo Commission gets to the bottom of the extrajudicial killings, it will suffer the same fate as previous presidential probe bodies. The task that challenges the commission is to make itself credible by holding an impartial and independent investigation of the political killings even if this would mean summoning the president for command responsibility as the armed forces commander-in-chief.
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