Extrajudicial killings in President Duterte’s war on drugs are not state-sponsored, according to an official of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR). Written policyGana said that to conclude that the war on drug killings were state-sponsored, there must be a written policy. But she acknowledged that no such policy could be found, “because who will do that?”Mr. Duterte’s pronouncements defending his war on drugs were not proof of state-sponsored killings, Gana said. “I’m not Amnesty International, I’m not the Human Rights Watch who are advocates and probably can just say that. We cannot just condemn anybody,” said Gana, who heads the CHR task force on extrajudicial killings.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer March 27, 2017 17:15 UTC