PANELO SLAMS CLAIM OF 27,000 KILLED IN DUTERTE DRUG WAR
‘Amnesty International stubborn, incorrigible’
Malacañang described London-based human rights group Amnesty International as “stubborn” and “incorrigible” after it insisted that there were around 27,000 extrajudicial killings in the country.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo asked the organization to cite facts and figures on the names of the 27,000 deaths noting that failure to do so would mean their reports were indeed “condemnable malice”.
“Amnesty International not only is stubborn but incorrigible as well, when it insists on pursuing and advancing a baseless and false narrative on the government’s war on drugs, specifically on the nature and number of deaths arising therefrom,” Panelo said in a statement on Wednesday night.
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