Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday that anyone found to have 'acted beyond bounds' in his campaign against illegal drugs would be held accountable under national laws, while appearing to reject an International Criminal Court probe.
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte speaks remotely during the 76th Session of the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 21, 2021. Mary Altaffer/Pool via REUTERS
Duterte told the United Nations General Assembly he had instructed the justice ministry and police to review the conduct of the campaign, in which more than 6,100 suspected drug dealers have been killed since 2016. Activists say many thousands more, mostly users or small-time peddlers, were killed by mystery gunmen.
Human Rights Watch accused Duterte of trying to mislead the international community into believing his government was investigating unlawful killings, noting that out of thousands of drug war killingsIn a statement, Carlos Conde, Senior Philippines Researcher at Human Rights Watch, said what the public had got instead was "more propaganda and stonewalling by the authorities."
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