Gordon slams UN, foreign media for playing up unresolved deaths in PH

Senator Richard Gordon yesterday slammed the United Nations (UN) and the foreign media for highlighting unresolved deaths in the Philippines noting that deaths in other countries are far worse. Chicago alone, Gordon said has a total of 545 unresolved deaths, compared to the reported 3,000 unresolved deaths across the Philippines. “Chicago city has become the crime capital of the USA. As of 2016, Oct. 1, 2016, there have been 545 killings in Chicago. In the Philippines, there are 3,000. That’s for the whole country,” Gordon said. He lamented that the UN and foreign media are silent on these deaths in the US and other countries and only scrutinize those in the Philippines. “One killing is bad but nagmamagaling ang puti (the whites are patronizing). Let him without sin cast the first stone,” he added. “Why is UN not questioning the US for the Chicago killings?” Gordon maintained the rule of [...]