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In the ’90s, when I was still part of Amnesty International Pilipinas as its executive director, we would welcome leaders from our international secretariat and executive committee to speak at our

membership and public events and to give some guidance on growing our work for human rights in the Philippines. One such visitor was an Australian, Dr. Ross Daniels, who once told one of our assemblies that “in the Philippines, I have learned that traffic lights are optional.” The assembly laughed, but many of us also realized that he spoke of a reality that needed attention aside from the country’s dismal human rights record then.

If Daniels were to return to the Philippines today, he would no longer joke about traffic rules and just call our streets Filipino mayhem and madness. He would probably quip in his full Australian accent that in the streets of the Philippines, “every day could be a good day to die!” First and foremost, can we all stop saying “only in the Philippines” for things like the absence of traffic discipline? Saying that simply reinforces in our minds and hearts that some things will just never change for the better. “Only in the Philippines” must become a collection of good stuff and not of the stuff that contributes to our once again becoming the sick man of Asia.

 

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