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  • Opinion & Analysis
  • January 27, 2023 , 11:41am

‘Only in the Philippines’

‘Only in the Philippines’

By Luis V. Teodoro

Business World

Neither netizens, newspaper readers, radio listeners, nor TV news viewers seemed surprised. It was as if it was just what they expected would happen, but one could almost hear their sighs of resignation. Some went on to perorate on the double standard of justice in these parts with which they are so familiar, or to just repeat what has long been the more cynical’s flippant dismissal of such events: that “only in the Philippines” do certain things happen, such as —

• Too many police and military personnel escaping accountability for the massacres, arbitrary arrests, abductions and extrajudicial killings in which they have been implicated;

• The most brazen plunderers and thieves getting off scot-free and even being appointed to high office because they’re wealthy and/or well connected;

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