01-02-2017 04:30 via yahoo.com

Amnesty warns of crimes against humanity in Philippines

Philippine police may have committed crimes against humanity by killing thousands of alleged drug offenders or paying others to murder as part of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, Amnesty International said Wednesday.An Amnesty report, which followed an in-depth investigation into the drug war, also outlined what it said were other widespread police crimes aside from extrajudicial killings that mainly targeted the poor."Acting on orders from the very top, policemen and unknown killers have b
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