(Reuters photo)A United Nations human rights investigator said in Bangkok Thursday there are signs of mounting opposition within the Philippines to President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs. "The difference between the number of reported killings and the number of court cases is unbelievable," she told Reuters in Bangkok. But Callamard, a human rights expert from France who took up the UN post in August, said opposition to the drug war was increasing and had reached a "tipping point." In a series of reports last year, Reuters showed that the police had a 97-percent kill rate in their drug operations, the strongest proof yet that police were summarily shooting drug suspects. Both the government and police have strenuously denied that extra-judicial killings have taken place.

Source: Bangkok Post February 09, 2017 19:48 UTC