Advocacy as Demolition Job: The Amnesty International Report

Loida Nicolas-Lewis, financier and loyal anti-Duterte overseas organizer, once said: “Doesn’t have to be true. Just needs to look like that.”

Well, it looks like Amnesty International (AI), an international human rights watchdog, has heeded the advice and painted in its recently released 68-page report an image of “extra-judicial killing” or EJK in the Philippines that wasn’t necessarily true, but made it appear that it was.

In strong, clear, accusatory words, AI expressed its deep concerns “that the deliberate and widespread killings of alleged drug offenders, which appear to be systematic, planned and organized by the authorities, may constitute crimes against humanity.”

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