#UN asked to pressure the Philippines on #Maguindanao carnage from INQUIRER.net
The United Nations has been asked by a senator to pressure and "seriously" hold the Philippine government accountable for the deaths of more than 50 people in Maguindanao province.
Senator Loren Legarda made this request in a letter dated November 26, 2009 to Navanethem Pillay, high commissioner for the office of UN human rights based in Geneva, Switzerland.
"As a United Nation's office mandated to promote and protect human rights, may I request you to take this matter up with your constituency of nations in order to put pressure and to seriously hold the government of the Republic of the Philippines accountable for immediate justice to the victims of the massacre as well as to mete out punishment to the perpetrators of this heinous crime," Legarda said in the letter.
"Whatever the motive is behind the massacre, we condemn this brutal and barbaric acts, all the more that it was committed against the most vulnerable sector of society, women, some of whom were reportedly raped before being executed," it further said.
