Amnesty report to "expose" Philippines extrajudicial executions in drug-related crimes
The report, to be released on Jan 31, will include compelling testimony from police officers, assassins, drug users and witnesses to a wave of extrajudicial executions that may amount to crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International’s investigation says, “If you are poor, you are killed”: Extrajudicial Executions in the Philippines, is based on interviews conducted with more than 100 people in the Philippines in November and December 2016.
It reveals how victims of drug-related killings "overwhelmingly reside in the Philippines’ poorest urban slums."
It also tries to establish direct links between vigilante killers and state authorities.
"Police routinely killing unarmed drug suspects during raids," the reports states.
It says under-the-table payments to police officers when they kill drug suspects.
The report found that more than 20 children killed in drug-related operations.
"Weak or non-existent investigations into killings by police and vigilantes," the report further reveals.
President Rodrigo Duterte is reportedly carrying out his campaign promise, a war against drugs, in the last 100 days in which more than 3,700 people have been left dead in Philippines.
Image: Wikipedia: Duterte presents a chart which he claims, illustrates a drug trade network of drug syndicates, on July 7, 2016.
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