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BY Prince Golez, Manila Reporter
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MANILA – “It was uncalled for.”
Sen. Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV apologized to Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano on Monday over his controversial actions in last week’s hearing on the reported extrajudicial killings of drug suspects and other criminals.
“This is to express my apologies for my demeanor during last Thursday’s hearing of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights,” Trillanes said on Monday in a letter addressed to Cayetano.
He assured the senator from Taguig that such incident will not be repeated.
“It was brought about because of the intense passion and emotion of the moment,” the former Navy officer said.
The senators engaged in a heated argument after Trillanes turned off Cayetano’s microphone while questioning the testimony of witness and self-confessed hitman Edgar Matobato, who claimed that President Rodrigo Duterte and his family ordered the Davao Death Squad (DDS) to kill criminals.
He also wanted his colleague be declared “out of order” since his “unli-questioning” had consumed the time of the committee.
Meanwhile, Trillanes filed Senate Resolution No. 151, urging the justice and human rights panel to investigate the extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the DDS.
Data from the Coalition Against Summary Execution and the Tambayan Center for the Care of Abused Children from 1998 to 2009 said 814 killings were linked to DDS.
A 2009 Commission on Human Rights report also attributed 206 deaths occurring between 2005 and 2009 to the death squad.
His proposed congressional probe aims to “come up with remedial legislation to ensure the protection of the people’s basic human rights (and) their right to life and to due process of law,” he said./PN
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