{"id":18972,"date":"2020-06-04T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/philippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un"},"modified":"2020-06-04T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T04:45:28","slug":"philippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18972","title":{"rendered":"Philippines police may have killed tens of thousands with &#8216;near impunity&#8217; in drug war &ndash; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign of encouragement by high-level officials may have been seen by police as \u2018permission to kill\u2019, says damning report<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016 in the Philippines, amid \u201cnear impunity\u201d for police and incitement to violence by top officials, the United Nations said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The drugs crackdown, launched by President Rodrigo Duterte after winning election on a platform of crushing crime, has been marked by police orders and high-level rhetoric that may have been interpreted as \u201cpermission to kill\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/04\/philippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign of encouragement by high-level officials may have been seen by police as \u2018permission to kill\u2019, says damning reportTens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs since mid-2016 in the Philippines, amid \u201cnear impunity\u201d for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,55,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18974,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18972\/revisions\/18974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}