The Philippine Educational Theater Association (Peta) has proved once again it was worthy of the Ramon Magsaysay Award as they blasted the police鈥檚 alleged quota under the government鈥檚 war on drugs through their new song.
The group performed at the Luneta Park rally that denounced the increasing human rights violations in the country.
In their jazzy song entitled 鈥淨uota,鈥� Peta took swipe on the Philippine National Police鈥檚 (PNP) reported quota or target number of killing drug suspects.
鈥淢eron quota, quota, kailangan pa ng quota. Basta may mapagbubuntunan, tapos kunwari nanlaban!鈥� the group sang.
(There鈥檚 a quota, quota, we need to have a quota. Just as long as we can dump it all on someone and pretend they fought back!)
Clad in black, Peta members also denounced the House of Representatives鈥� move to fund the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) with a measly P1,000.
Peta was awarded this year鈥檚 Ramon Magsaysay Award, dubbed as Asia鈥檚 equivalent of the Nobel Prize. The group, according to the Ramon Magsaysay Foundation, has greatly contributed in shaping theater arts in the Philippines as a force for social change.聽/je