Investigations found that 38.5% of the documented child killings were carried out by policemen. FMTNews Manila
GENEVA: At least 129 children have been killed in the Philippines’ four-year war on drugs, most by police or allied assailants, but they may only represent a fraction of the toll, activist groups said on Monday.
The World Organisation against Torture and the Children’s Legal Rights and Development Centre, a Philippines-based group, urged the UN Human Rights Council to launch an independent commission of inquiry into extrajudicial killings and other crimes at its three-week session opening on Tuesday. “We are calling on the Human Rights Council to give a clear investigative mandate on the ground to collect the evidence and to ensure accountability,” he told a news conference.Spokesman Harry Roque rejected as “rehashed claims” a separate UN report this month that found tens of thousands of people may have been killed in the war on drugs amid near impunity.
Their investigations found that 38.5% of the documented child killings were carried out by policemen while 61.5% were by unknown assailants, “some of them with direct links to the police”.Perpetrators enjoy impunity, with only one case, involving the killing of 17-year-old Manila student Kian delos Santos, recorded on video in 2017, leading to a conviction, the report said.
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