Legalised murder in the Philippines: USA next?

basilio said:

Amnesty International has release an investigation into the killing of alleged drug dealers. It confirmed the story I was told about police paying people to kill users and dealers. Horrible reading.

Philippines police paid to kill alleged drug offenders, says Amnesty
Police accused of planting evidence, taking cash from funeral homes and fabricating reports in Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs



A mourner stands by the coffin of a man killed in an anti-drug operation last week in Manila, Philippines. Photograph: Romeo Ranoco/Reuters


Oliver Holmes Southeast Asia correspondent

Wednesday 1 February 2017 03.01 AEDT Last modified on Wednesday 1 February 2017 09.00 AEDT

Amnesty International has accused police in the Philippines of paying officers and other people to kill alleged drug offenders, planting evidence and even setting up a racket with funeral homes in a “murderous war on the poor”.

A wave of extrajudicial killings by police and the vigilantes they work with may amount to crimes against humanity, Amnesty said. More than 7,000 people have been killed since President Rodrigo Duterte, nicknamed “the punisher”, unleashed a bloody crackdown seven months ago.

Amnesty investigated 33 incidents of drug-related killings in 20 cities and towns across the country in which 59 people were killed.


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“The vast majority of these killings appear to have been extrajudicial executions – that is, unlawful and deliberate killings carried out by government order or with its complicity or acquiescence,” the report said

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...d-drug-offenders-says-amnesty-rodrigo-duterte

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What about crimes against humanity in the Muslim countries, be headings, stoning to death for adultery, chopping off hands, female genital mutilation and old men marrying children.

Do we turn a blind eye to that?

noco said:

What about crimes against humanity in the Muslim countries, be headings, stoning to death for adultery, chopping off hands, female genital mutilation and old men marrying children.

Do we turn a blind eye to that?

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Off topic. This thread is about the Philppines.

There are threads relating to Muslims elsewhere if you would care to post there.

SirRumpole said:

Off topic. This thread is about the Philppines.

There are threads relating to Muslims elsewhere if you would care to post there.

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Yes Rumpy, you are right for once but I was purely trying to point out the hypocrisy of the UN Human Rights where,by they have pointed the finger at the Philippines's President Duterte but you never hear a word from the UN about the the beheadings, the female genital mutilation, the stoning to death of women who commit adultery, people losing a hand or an arm for criticizing the Koran or old men marrying girls as young as 10.

However, to satisfy your pedantic concerns for correctness I will re-post on the appropriate thread.

Well Trump has invited Duterte to the White House Perhaps he wants to get some poibters on creating a self cleansing police force to reduce the costs of incarceration.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/01/whit...o-duterte-despite-human-rights-criticism.html

basilio said:

Well Trump has invited Duterte to the White House Perhaps he wants to get some poibters on creating a self cleansing police force to reduce the costs of incarceration.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/01/whit...o-duterte-despite-human-rights-criticism.html

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I think the US already have that cost-saving kind of Police shooting first than plant a weapon later training.

The private prison operator don't like that so much seeing how each victim, I mean, criminal makes them some $40,000 a year excluding free labour.

Maybe Trump call him over so his sons and daughter can ask for favours about that "very very fine" Trump tower and a few sweat shops for Ivanka's new patented trademark?

That and I think it's about China. Seeing how Duterte (and most Filipino) aren't so keen on America given its history of liberating the Filipinos from Spain. That and China will soon have six carrier battle group and a whole bunch of unsinkable reefs on Philippine's waterfront.

Better to be bought out than be shot at, he thinks.

And still people are murdered without pity under President Dutertes demands to eradicates drugs.

Kian Loyd delos Santos, 17, killed by police in Manila
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HE DREAMT of becoming a policeman, but instead was gunned down by the men whose shoes he may have one day filled.

Kian Loyd delos Santos, 17, is just one of thousands of victims of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war, but he has become the face of an unprecedented resistance.

Church leaders in the devoutly Catholic nation have spoken out against the schoolboy’s slaying in a Manila street on August 16, which police claimed was part of a legitimate anti-drugs operation.

But witness accounts and CCTV footage contradicting the official account have emerged, painting a picture of an extrajudicial killing of an innocent young man whose final words have come to haunt even those who support Duterte’s zero-tolerance drugs crackdown: “Please can I go home, I have school tomorrow.”

Witnesses said the teen was handed a gun and ordered to run by plainclothes police, with his dead body found curled into a foetal position in a dark corner. Wearing a blue shirt and boxer shorts, he was found with a gun in his left hand.


Kian Loyd delos Santos’ death has galvanised resistance to Duterte’s crackdown. Picture: FacebookSource:Facebook

Police initially claimed that delos Santos was a drug dealer and that he had opened fire during a raid, prompting law enforcement officers to gun him down in self defence.

But his family says he was mercilessly shot by police while pleading for his life, and the public outcry that followed has prompted an official investigation, with three police officers and their commander stood down.

The student’s grieving parents and neighbours pointed to security camera footage that showed a man, who they said was delos Santos, being held by both arms and dragged away from his home shortly before he was shot nearby.

They described him as a hardworking and studious young man who had no involvement in drugs, and rose at 5.30am each morning to work in the family’s convenience store before attending school.


Protesters display placards outside the wake for slain Kian Loyd Delos Santos. Picture: Bullit MarquezSource:AP


Kian delos Santos’ father Saldy speaks to journalists next to the coffin of his son. Picture: Ted AljibeSource:AFP

Archbishop Socrates Villegas, who heads an influential bloc of Filipino Catholic bishops, announced that church bells would be rung for 15 minutes every night for three months across his northern district from August 22, to rouse a citizenry “which has become a coward in expressing anger against evil.”

http://www.news.com.au/finance/econ...a/news-story/0c047420f184d51be06ef5c816a091ea