MANILA (Reuters) - A senator and detained critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs has warned he and his "blind followers" will pay for ignoring alleged extrajudicial killings, and should stop trying to fool the world their crackdown was above board. Leila de Lima, who last year led a Senate probe into alleged summary killings during Duterte's anti-drugs campaign, was arrested last week and has been remanded in police detention on drug charges. The New York-based group said Duterte had turned a blind eye to murders by police in a "campaign of extrajudicial execution". "Stop fooling our people and the rest of the world," said the senator, who last week described Duterte as a "sociopathic serial killer". Many of the other deaths are under investigation and rights groups believe most were summary executions of drugs users, with police complicity.

Source: The Star March 03, 2017 10:07 UTC