“There’s this refusal to acknowledge the problem of the drug war,” he said, adding that the senator’s candidacy ensures that “they protect themselves from accountability” should he prevail in the elections. Honest to goodness, there are really collateral damage.”Īs the senator pulled off a surprise on Friday, filing his candidacy to run for Philippines president in 2022 barely 30 minutes before the deadline, rights groups are raising the alarm about his human rights record and the perception of impunity he represents.ĭela Rosa’s candidacy shows the “doubling down on the brutal policy” of the deadly war within the “Duterte clique”, Carlos Conde of Human Rights Watch told Al Jazeera. “If you are a police officer, do you really want a child to be caught in a crossfire? Never. He had previously served as President Rodrigo Duterte’s police chief and top enforcer of the war on drugs, which by then had already left at least 6,600 people dead.Īsked about the rules of conduct in the drug war and the death of an innocent child, the first time senator quipped in a mix of Tagalog and English, “It’s an imperfect world … sh*t happens. Ronald dela Rosa had just assumed his Senate seat when the incident happened. She later filed murder charges against the police. But the child’s mother disputed the report, saying her family was already asleep when police started shooting, and that her husband was unarmed. Police said she was used as a “human shield” by her father. She was hit in the head and later died in the hospital. The two suspects were also killed.Ī three-year-old child, the daughter of one of the suspects, was caught in the crossfire.
In the course of the operation, authorities claimed the suspects engaged them in a gunfight, shooting one officer in the neck and killing him. In June of 2019, police officers in the Philippines conducted an undercover operation against two suspected drug dealers in the suburb of Manila.
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