Amnesty raps Philippines’ ‘extrajudicial killings’
‘A London-based international rights group has strongly criticized the Philippines for the killing of thousands of drug dealers under President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial anti-drug campaign.
Amnesty International said on Wednesday that after investigating the conditions under which 59 people had been killed in the campaign and interviewing 110 witnesses, relatives of slain suspects, drug users, police officers, and even hired killers from November to December last year, it came to believe that “the vast majority of these killings appear to have been extrajudicial executions.”
The rights group said the killings may constitute crimes against humanity.’
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