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Human rights groups warn Sirisena to face the ICC if he follows Duterte's 'war on drugs' | Tamil Guardian

20.1.19

Human rights groups warn Sirisena to face the ICC if he follows Duterte's 'war on drugs' | Tamil Guardian: Philippines researcher for Human Rights Watch Carlos Conde, said Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign was “a human rights calamity that no country in the world should even try to emulate”. Philippines police claim at least 5,000 suspected drug dealers have been killed in the president’s campaign, with local activists stating that civilians have been targeted and the true figure dead being much higher.

“No ‘drug war’ that treated the drug problem purely from a crime perspective has ever succeeded,” added Conde. “What they have wrought are untold suffering and the further destruction of the rule of law and the diminution of human rights”.


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