The high profile Department of Justice-led panel assessment of "war on drugs" operations that resulted in deaths was a mere "desk review" and does not reach the level of a domestic investigation that would merit a deferral of the International Criminal Court’s probe into the killings.
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The Department of Justice will include the reported falsification of some death certificates of victims of the Duterte government’s bloody "war on drugs" in its review of anti-drug operations that resulted in deaths.
The National Bureau of Investigation will conduct case build-up on “war on drugs” operations that resulted in deaths from July 2016 to June 2020, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said.
"Insufficient and inconsistent."
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Human rights lawyer and senatorial candidate Chel Diokno slammed the review on the 52 cases of deaths during police anti-narcotics operations in the country, saying it fails to provide the real extent o