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Philippines’ Paralysis on Human Rights Issues

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Oct 11, 2023
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By: Viswa Nathan

At the start of this year, the Marcos administration’s interior secretary Benjamin Abalos set out to cleanse the Philippine National Police (PNP) of its bad apples. But he was met with resistance from more than 900 officers of the 228,000-strong PNP, who were unwilling to comply with Abalos’s request for courtesy resignations, which the …

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