MALACANANG dismissed claims by the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteurs that the ongoing implementation of martial law in Mindanao to fight terrorism has perpetuated human rights abuses and displaced indigenous peoples (IP).
Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque was referring to the report by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, and Cecilia Jimenez-Damary, special rapporteur on internally displaced people, which claimed that thousands of Lumads have been forcibly displaced by the conflict and whose rights have been abused during the five-month martial rule.
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