Opposition senators called for an inquiry on Tuesday on anti-drug police operations in the past week that left at least 80 people dead, including a 17-year-old student in Caloocan City. In a separate statement, Aquino said: “It is high time to end police abuse during drug raids. Delos Santos was one of the at least 80 people killed in simultaneous anti-drug operations in Metro Manila and Bulacan. Trillanes stressed that the investigation should be aimed not only at purging police ranks of personnel implicated in the killing and abuse of drug suspects but also at providing accountability for those found erring. “Unless there is an immediate honest-to-goodness investigation into these killings, the already long list of grave rights violations linked to the drug war will only continue to grow,” the senators said.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 22, 2017 11:15 UTC