WorldPhilippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday he would recall police to fight his drug war, a month after he withdrew them and denounced the force as “corrupt to the core”. Duterte had been unrepentant in the face of widespread international criticism of the drug war, including accusations the police were murdering people for their own gain and organising anonymous vigilante death squads. Duterte repeatedly promised to shield police from prosecution if they were charged with murder for killing in the drug war. It's in your system,” Duterte said on January 30, before announcing all police had been pulled off the drug war until their ranks had been “cleansed”. Global rights monitor Amnesty International released a report on February 1 warning that the killings in the drug war may amount to a crime against humanity.

Source: Sunday Times February 28, 2017 12:04 UTC