“License to Kill”

Recommendations
To the President of the Philippines
• Immediately take all necessary steps to end extrajudicial executions in the antidrug
campaign;
• Publicly denounce extrajudicial killings and other abuses in the anti-drug
campaign, and press for the investigation and appropriate prosecution of
government officials at all levels and government agents implicated in
such abuses;
• Rescind the order to deploy Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel in “antidrug”
operations;
• Cease public statements that instigate or incite state security forces and the
general public to commit unlawful killings and other abuses against suspected
drug dealers and users;
• Direct the Office of the Ombudsman and the National Bureau of Investigation to
conduct impartial inquiries and report promptly and publicly on the involvement of
the Philippine National Police, including SOCO and SAID-SOTU units, and local
officials in unlawful killings and other abuses against criminal suspects;
• Direct the Commission on Audit or other appropriate agency to investigate
possible misuse of government funds for the anti-drug campaign and take
appropriate action;
• Permit without interference or restrictions the visit of the UN special rapporteur on
extrajudicial executions and other UN experts to investigate alleged unlawful
killings and other abuses in the anti-drug campaign.
To the Philippine Congress
• Conduct public hearings into allegations of extrajudicial killings by the police and
other government officials in the anti-drug campaign;
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