MANILA, Philippines — A review of the over 5,000 drug-related police operations that resulted in deaths should also cover people who “emboldened those that pulled the trigger,” United Nations (UN) special rapporteur Agnes Callamard said Friday.
During the online forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP), Callamard, an international human rights investigator, was asked on possible benchmarks that the inter-agency panel evaluating the police drug operations should hit. The inter-agency panel is headed by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
“To me, one of the most clear and centrally-important steps that must be taken and that should be a benchmark …
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