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UN Experts Seek Inquiry Into 'Unlawful' Killings in Philippines

by Reuters

   GENEVA --

   United Nations human rights experts called on Friday for an
   international investigation into a "staggering number of unlawful
   deaths and police killings in the context of the so-called war on
   drugs" in the Philippines.

   Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has publicly intimidated
   activists and Supreme Court judges, degraded women and "incited
   violence against alleged drug pushers and others," 11 independent
   experts said in a joint statement calling on the U.N. Human Rights
   Council to launch an independent inquiry.