Amnesty's criticism came after another rights watchdog, Human Rights Watch, warned of bloodshed should cops return to the campaign. "The return of the police’s involvement in the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’ would be a human rights disaster," James Gomez, Amnesty International's director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, warned. A government #RealNuumbersPH on drug war statistics has petered out from weekly updates to once a month. Popular drug warThe drug war has wide popular and political support. Papa said that the hot spots of drug killings still are the same.

Source: Philippine Star November 24, 2017 00:27 UTC