Gabriela Women’s Party Representative Liza Maza today criticized
President Arroyo’s Executive Order 739 as “a dangerous move towards the
operationalization of a police and betrays the Arroyo regime’s
propensity for totalitarianism.”
According to Maza, EO 739 which reorganizes the National Peace and
Order Council places the country, down to the smallest and most
isolated barangays under the framework of internal security order (ISO)
that poses the risk of further undermining civilian authority. “It
portends a human rights catastrophe.”
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