By Argyll Cyrus B. Geducos
Malacañang has called on the two Filipino United Nations special rapporteurs to stop using their post to embarrass the Duterte administration before the international community.
UN special rapporteurs on the rights of indigenous peoples and internally displaced people Victoria Tauli-Corpuz and Cecilia Jimenez-Damary have claimed that human rights abuses were committed against indigenous and internally displaced peoples in Mindanao.
The two Filipino UN special rapporteurs were elected to their posts during the administration of President Benigno S. Aquino III.
Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque accused the two rapporteurs of partisanship and appealed that they be more careful with their statements.
Roque also said that they should have disclosed their information to the authorities first before speaking elsewhere.
“Both special rapporteurs should be more circumspect on their statements given that they were elected to their post upon the BS, the former administration. And that their observations were made so publicly as they were appeared to be very partisan,” Roque said.
