UN told PH gov’t does not tolerate summary killings

President Duterte does not tolerate extrajudicial killings of drug suspects and has already ordered an investigation into these incidents, Malacañang assured the United Nations (UN) yesterday. After two UN experts called the government’s attention to stop the unlawful killings, Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella said it was “unfair” to insinuate that these deaths were sanctioned by the President. “The President has repeatedly said that he does not tolerate extrajudicial killings, nor is it policy,” Abella said in a statement. “The President therefore decries the attribution of killings to the Philippine government.  This is simply unfair, especially to the hardworking men and women in uniform who risk their lives and limbs to win the war against drugs,” he said. Abella said the President has already assigned the National Police Commission (Napolcom) to conduct an investigation on reports that some suspects “may have been salvaged or killed by vigilantes or by mistake.” “The [...]