Sunday, August 12, 2012

letter to the president








Dear Mr. President,
            May you be in the best of everything handling this letter of mine.
            Congratulations on your inauguration as the 15th president of the Republic of the Philippines. Human Rights Watch would like to say palarin ka sana, good luck in carrying out your duties as president.
Human Rights Watch looks forward to working with you to realize the commitments to protecting and promoting human rights that you articulated during your presidential campaign and inaugural address. In your campaign, you rightly emphasized the importance of justice and ending extrajudicial killings, and promised to abolish so-called private armies. In your address on June 30, you undertook to "strengthen the armed forces and the police, not to serve the interests of those who want to wield power with impunity, but to give added protection for ordinary folk." And you publicly instructed your new justice secretary, Leila de Lima, to "begin the process of providing true and complete justice for all." We encourage you to move swiftly with clear and effective policies to realize these commitments.
                Thank you for lending your eyes and  heart for this short letter of mine sir. I hope that you will be the wellspring of change.

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