FOR a president who made much of the supposed impunity and poor regard for human rights under the administration of his predecessor, the recent statements issued by two United Nations human rights experts on the tragic circumstances of the Lumad community in Mindanao should be a shocking and painful embarrassment.

Of course, not every president has the same unassailable belief in his own superior righteousness as President BS Aquino 3rd, so perhaps his complete indifference to the issue should not surprise anybody.