DILG takes offense at US State Department report on impunity of PH state forces

Policemen stand guard near the body of a man killed during what police said was a drug-related vigilante killing in Barangay Manggahan in Pasig City early yesterday.

The STAR / Joven Cagande

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of the Interior and Local Government panned the US State Department’s 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices released on the abuses by security forces in the Philippines, calling it "sweeping, rhetorical, and unfounded."

This comes after the US Department of State said that it received “credible reports that members of the security forces committed numerous abuses” in its 2021 Country Report on Human Rights Practices. 

The report pointed out — correctly, as even the national government's own data will show — that drug-related killings linked to President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" continue in the Philippines.  

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