North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza became a hot topic on various social media sites as well as the mainstream media after her video of planning to block the donations intended for Kidapawan protesters went viral. A group of human rights lawyers from Davao blasted North Cotabato Gov. Mendoza for being an “aristocratic mata pobre.”
According to Edre Olalia, secretary-general of the National Union of People’s Lawyers (NUPL), the Governor exhibits unparalled remorselessness, arrogance,and self-righteousness. By saying that the issue ‘is not about rice,’ she betrays herself as an aristocratic mata pobre.”
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The group of lawyers, NUPLE has branded the bloody Kidapawan incident as a “plain cold-blooded-unmitigated murder, which, by any decent standard, is a disproportionate response of a powerful bully over the powerless.”
NUPL also stated that the search warrant used during the controversial dispersals of farmers protesting against the local government appears dubious, irregular and a fishing expedition. The NUPL stated that “Such shotgun or general warrant is, therefore, not only illegal and invalid but is a continuing violation of human rights under the law, the Constitution & international conventions,” NUPL stressed.