“License to Kill”

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To the United States Government • Impose a moratorium on planned and future weapons sales to the Philippine National Police until the abusive anti-drug campaign ends and meaningful actions are taken to investigate and prosecute those responsible; • The US-led Millennium Challenge Corporation should continue to defer grants to the Philippines on grounds relating to the rule of law and respect for civil liberties, first announced in December 2016, until the Duterte administration ends its abusive anti-drug campaign and takes action to meaningfully investigate those responsible; • The State Department and Department of Defence should continue to vigorously vet all members of the PNP and other Philippine government officials who are involved in US training or joint US-Philippines law enforcement or military operations for possible involvement in gross human rights violations, both as legally required under the Leahy Law and as a matter of policy so that the US is not complicit in serious abuses; • The US State Department should ensure that Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)-funded training to Philippine National Police units neither encourages nor incentivizes high numbers of arrests for drug possession and instead emphasizes that arrest numbers are not a valid measure of law enforcement performance; • The US military should reduce direct assistance to and cooperation with the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) if the Philippine government deploys AFP units in the anti-drug campaign and there are credible allegations that AFP personnel are committing unlawful killings with impunity. To the United Nations To the UN Human Rights Council • Establish an independent international investigation into unlawful killings and other violations by the Philippine authorities in the context of President Duterte’s “war on drugs”; LICENSE TO KILL 116
• Consider reviewing the Philippines’ status as a member of the Human Rights Council if it persistently breaches its membership obligations to uphold the highest standards of human rights and to cooperate with the Council and its mechanisms, including its Special Procedures. 117 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | MARCH 2017
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H U M A N R I G H T S W A T C H “
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Copyright © 2017 Human Rights Watc
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Norberto Maderal, George Avanceña,
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SUMMARY HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | MARCH
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On the afternoon of October 14, 201
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Jayson Asuncion, 37, surrendered to
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A barangay official told Rogie Seba
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A family picture with the coffin of
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Human Rights Watch examined the pol
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Six masked armed men burst into a M
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Relatives of Edward Sentorias, 34,
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and his top subordinates have denie
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“Hitler massacred three million J
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Methodology From October 2016 to Ja
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eal crime wave unleashed by his own
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Duterte was Davao City mayor for mo
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sanctioned death squads in cities i
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“And if in the process you kill o
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The human rights [activists] said I
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Adviser Hermogenes Esperon confirme
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meant to indicate that police opera
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the suspects had been in police cus
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uyer was to purchase one (1) piece
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Media accounts of the incident said
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Approximately 30 minutes after the
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no reason to lie about this. That i
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Napoleon Miras Ai-Ai, July 24 Baran
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[T]he suspect sensed that he was be
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Noel Alberto, “Sarah,” Septembe
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Antonio’s relatives believe that
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cops came on a motorbike. The unifo
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locked off the area and told the fa
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thereafter, gunshots rang out, and
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Page 99 and 100: On September 20, Duterte responded
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