MANILA, Philippines — A “monstrous killing machine.”This was how Senator Leila De Lima described President Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against drugs after Amnesty International (AI) released a report slamming the administration for its lack of “meaningful accountability” in the drug war which resulted in the death of thousands of drug suspects. ADVERTISEMENT“While AI has called Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ a ‘large-scale murdering enterprise’, I labeled it as a monstrous ‘killing machine’ whose continued rampage with almost no accountability within the national system requires the focus and concrete actions from such global instruments of justice as the UNHRC (UN Human Rights Council) and the ICC (International Criminal Court),” De Lima said in a statement. Due to this, De Lima said a UN-led probe is “paramount” as she expressed her support towards the call for a probe of the alleged EJKs in the country. “As before, AI joins the chorus of calls from all over urging the UN and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the killings here. ‘Politicizing’ the EJKPresidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Monday downplayed the AI report, saying that group was only “politicizing” the alleged cases of EJK in the country.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer July 09, 2019 06:33 UTC