The council should also press the government to cooperate with the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, grant unfettered and unconditional access to the rapporteur, and immediately stop all official incitement and instigation of drug war killings,” Kine said. Until Duterte ends his abusive drug war and allows a UN-led international probe, child-killers among the police will continue to get away with murder,” he added. Meanwhile, the police was again reminded of the Commission on Human Rights to open its case folders. The CHR has expressed optimism that police officials will comply with the request despite President Duterte’ refusal to do so. The CHR had also requested for the case folders because some questions remained unanswered despite the police giving them their matrices.

Source: The Standard September 09, 2017 15:56 UTC