Philippines: Endorse UN Inquiry into ‘Drug War’ Killings

Expand Protesters hold placards and lit candles at the wake of Kian delos Santos, a 17-year-old high school student, who was among the people shot dead last week in an escalation of President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, in Caloocan City, Metro Manila, Philippines on August 21, 2017. © 2017 Erik De Castro / Reuters (New York) – The Philippine government should urgently support the creation of a United Nations-led investigation into the thousands of killings linked to its “war on drugs,” Human Rights Watch said today. A UN-led probe would both help clarify the disparity in official and…

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