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PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte has admitted that police have carried out extrajudicial killings in his war on illegal drugs, but he refuses to cancel a shoot-to-kill order for drug gang suspects.
He claimed late on Thursday that most of the 400 people shot dead by police in the past month have been drug dealers and addicts exchanging fire with police.
The president added, however, that he was sure that some of them had been “salvaged,” which is local slang for extrajudicial killings.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
The corporate media have been quick to point the finger over the murder of a Nicaraguan opposition figure, but where is the actual evidence, ask KELLY NELSON and ROGER D HARRIS