Former Senator Leila de Lima responded to Former President Duterte's statement on the policy of killings during the bloody war on drugs at the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on Monday, Oct. 8.
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00:00Mr. Chair and the Honourable Members of the Subcommittee conducting today's inquiry.
00:11We can destroy and we need to destroy drugs, but we cannot destroy lives.
00:25Yan po ang sagot ko sa very passionate defence of the former President as to his policy of
00:39killing alleged drug offenders, alleged drug pushers, alleged drug users.
00:51We can destroy drugs, but we need not destroy lives.
00:58I just wish to emphasise that.
01:02I said that in my privileged speech in August 2016 after I filed a Senate inquiry, a resolution
01:18calling for Senate inquiry.
01:23This man, the former Mayor of Davao City and the former President of the Republic of the
01:34Philippines, for so long have evaded justice and accountability for the thousands of those
01:46killed in the name of the so-called war on drugs.