{"id":18973,"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":"2020-06-04T22:05:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:05:11","slug":"philippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18973","title":{"rendered":"Philippines war on drugs may have killed tens of thousands, says UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report says crackdown appears to have resulted in systematic extrajudicial killings<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of people may have been killed during Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s war on drugs in the Philippines, according to a damning UN report that warns of \u201cpersistent impunity\u201d and calls for an independent investigation into abuses.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-narcotics crackdown in the Philippines, launched by the president after he won the 2016 election on a promise to rid the country of drugs, appears to have resulted in \u201cwidespread and systematic\u201d extrajudicial killings, the report says.<\/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>Report says crackdown appears to have resulted in systematic extrajudicial killingsTens of thousands of people may have been killed during Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s war on drugs in the Philippines, according to a damning UN report that warns of \u201cpersistent imp&#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":[41,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18973","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=18973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18988,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18973\/revisions\/18988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}