Lacson: Go after rings behind Pinoy drug mules
By Angie M. Rosales 12/10/2011Government should take a second look at the cases of Filipinos being used as drug mules and go after the syndicates that recruit them as couriers of illegal goods, especially drugs, Sen. Panfilo Lacson said yesterday.
“We cannot impose on them because they have a law that they have to follow, in the same manner that we also have laws that we have to enforce,” the lawmaker said, referring to the policy of the Chinese government, subjecting to execution those found guilty of drug trafficking.
This is in the light of Thursday’s execution by lethal injection of a convicted Filipino who travelled to China in 2008 and apprehended for trying to smuggle about 1.5 kilograms of heroin from Malaysia.
“I wouldn’t blame government (if it failed to stop the execution) because we can only do so much and we should respect the laws being enforced by other countries in their territories,” he said.
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Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20111210met1.html
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