MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have decided to walk on the safe side when it comes to the drug war records because President Rodrigo Duterte said it had national security implications.
“If you want to get it [records], we can’t give everything — not because we are hiding some facts that [are] known to us but unknown to you. But national security issues are part of this,” Duterte said Monday.
The President was reacting to the presentation of Interior Secretary Eduardo Ao showing data that deaths still occurred during legitimate police anti-drug operations. This should be a lesson for the human rights sector — th…
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