26-08-2017 08:54 via yahoo.com

More than a thousand turn Philippine funeral to protest against war on drugs

By ErikDe Castro and Andrew R.C. MarshallMANILA (Reuters) - More than a thousand people attended a funeral procession on Saturday for a Philippine teenager slain by police last week, turning the march into one of the biggest protests yet against President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly war on drugs.The death of Kian Loyd delos Santos has drawn widespread attention to allegations that police have been systematically executing suspected users and dealers - a charge the authorities deny.Nuns, priests and
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