President Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s recent threat against lives of drug offenders intensified the need for the United Nations and International Criminal Court to scrutinize the \u201cbloody drug war\u201d that he founded, Human Rights Watch said\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
It can be recalled that Duterte issued a \u201ctelevised death threat\u201d\u00a0against detained drug suspects in Cebu City, advising them to \u201cstay in jail if they want to live longer as it would be not healthy for them to go out of the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
This statement, according to HRW Asia Division deputy director\u00a0Phelim Kine,\u00a0\u201cshould send a message to the ICC of the dire need for a preliminary examination into the killings and to the UN for a separate international inquiry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kine also said that the results of the drug campaign since it was launched gives a \u201cbrutal lesson\u201d that once individuals are considered a suspect, they end up being killed in \u201csuspicious police buy-bust operations, or at the hands of unidentified gunmen”\u00a0without undergoing due process,\u00a0which is a \u201cgood reason for Duterte\u2019s targets to be afraid.”<\/p>\n
He added that Duterte\u2019s threat may be \u201ctwisted\u201d by his \u201cspin doctors\u201d as a mere joke but it is still a \u201cclear message to police officers and other security force members that certain kinds of crimes not only can be committed with impunity but might even draw praise from the president.\u201d<\/p>\n
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