MANILA, Philippines — A party-list coalition has raised the possibility of a tribunal conducting an independent investigation into the drug war following a Commission on Human Rights (CHR) report which revealed that the police had an ‘intent to kill’ in their operations.
According to Bayan Muna, this autonomous legal body will be created after President Duterte has left office in 2022 when he will no longer be protected from criminal liability.
The group has been largely skeptical of the Duterte administration’s anti-drug drive, and it fully supports the CHR’s investigation of thousands of victims’ deaths.
“There must be an independent tribunal, similar to the Truth Commission…
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