Duterte ready to answer UN queries on drug killings
Two UN experts earlier urged the Philippine government to put an end to the wave of extrajudicial executions
Monday, August 22, 2016
President Duterte dared United Nations (UN) experts to come to the Philippines and face him in a public meeting where he would answer all their questions on drug-related extrajudicial killings. Two UN human rights experts urged the Philippine government to stop the unlawful killings of people suspected of drug-related crimes, as the number of suspects killed during police operations climbed to over 850 between May 10 and August 11, this year, 650 of them killed in the last six weeks alone. (See also: Duterte threatens to pull Philippines out of UN | Philippine senators investigate hundreds of drugs killings)