President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has ordered police to halt all operations in his deadly war on drugs, in which more than 7,000 people have been killed since he took office last year.
The order, announced during a speech to soldiers at the presidential palace, does not end the campaign as Duterte added that a drug enforcement agency under his office and possibly the military would continue the fight.
“I have ordered the police to stop all operations,” Duterte said during the speech. “No policeman in this country anywhere is allowed to enforce laws related to the drug campaign.”
The speech follows months of allegations by human rights groups that the police have used the officially sanctioned crackdown to conduct extrajudicial killings. On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report alleging that police have planted evidence and stolen from people they had killed.
Duterte’s announcement builds on a order issued this week that disbanded anti-drugs police units after the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue officers. Full story...
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The order, announced during a speech to soldiers at the presidential palace, does not end the campaign as Duterte added that a drug enforcement agency under his office and possibly the military would continue the fight.
“I have ordered the police to stop all operations,” Duterte said during the speech. “No policeman in this country anywhere is allowed to enforce laws related to the drug campaign.”
The speech follows months of allegations by human rights groups that the police have used the officially sanctioned crackdown to conduct extrajudicial killings. On Tuesday, Amnesty International released a report alleging that police have planted evidence and stolen from people they had killed.
Duterte’s announcement builds on a order issued this week that disbanded anti-drugs police units after the killing of a South Korean businessman by rogue officers. Full story...
See also: Duterte’s Drug War and Abuse of Power...
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