The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has expressed shock and horror over the recent killings of activists in Southern Luzon, and an international human rights watchdog urged the UN body to immediately send a “rapid response unit” to investigate their deaths at the hands of security forces.
“We are appalled by the apparently arbitrary killing of nine activists in simultaneous police-military operations in Batangas, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal provinces surrounding Metro Manila in the Philippines in the early hours of Sunday morning, ” OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said on Tuesday.
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