KORONADAL CITY—The Central Mindanao police said all 57 deaths of suspected pushers in the region since July 1 were the results of legitimate police operations and not of extrajudicial killings. “Definitely, there was no extrajudicial killing in the region during antidrug operations,” Supt. Galgo said even government prosecutors and the Commission on Human Rights have said that there had been no complaints of police excesses during these police operations. ADVERTISEMENT“We asked the prosecutors and human rights workers if there were complaints of human rights violations during police antidrug operation and they said there was none,” Galgo said. Aguirre said he has also required prosecutors to undergo drug testing to determine if they had been using drugs or not.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 16, 2016 16:39 UTC