Extra Judicial Killings - by imelda

President Rodrigo Duterte slammed foreign and local critics, including news organizations and human rights groups, for tagging 1,756 deaths related to his war on drugs as extra-judicial killings.

Since Mr. Duterte won the elections by a large margin, police operations have killed more than a thousand alleged addicts, street peddlers and a few mid-level “lieutenants” of drug syndicates. Unidentified assailants have felled almost 600 others. Another 133 bodies were found wrapped like mummies in plastic shrouds bound by packaging tape.

All these, the President and his allies tell us, should not be called extra-judicial killings. These, they insist, should be called “deaths under investigation.”

NOTE: As a Filipino Citizen I believed about the importance of the Fifth commandment " Thou shall not kill"