More than 6,200 people were killed in police operations in the drugs campaign.
MANILA - Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte confirmed a “death squad” existed under his watch to control crime when he was Davao City mayor, but gave conflicting accounts of its make-up, first saying it was run by police officers, then by gangsters.
“That is the job of the police,” said Mr Duterte, who admitted to senators that thousands of criminals died when he was Davao mayor. But the 79 year-old Mr Duterte later said gangsters – not police – made up his death squad, adding to the ambiguity surrounding the squad's operations. Human rights groups documented about 1,400 suspicious killings in Davao during the 22 years Mr Duterte was mayor, and critics say the war on drugs he unleashed as president bore the same hallmarks.which is also the subject of an International Criminal Court investigation.
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