Amnesty International: Extrajudicial killings in Duterte's drug war may be crimes against humanity

Manila

THE Philippine police may have committed crimes against humanity by killing thousands of alleged drug offenders or paying others to murder as part of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

An Amnesty report, which followed an in-depth investigation into the drug war, also outlined what it said were other widespread police crimes aside from extrajudicial killings that mainly targeted the poor.

"Acting on orders from the very top, policemen and unknown killers have been targeting anybody remotely suspected of using of selling drugs," said Amnesty's senior crisis adviser Rawya Rageh.

"Our investigation shows that this wave of extrajudicial killings has been widespread, deliberate …