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Friday, December 1, 2017
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MANILA – Philippines National Police (PNP) chief Ronald Dela Rosa said Reuters had timed a report on a deadly antidrug raid to make his officers “look bad” as President Rodrigo Duterte considers returning them to drug war operations.
Police killed three men in a poor Manila neighborhood on Oct. 11 in what they said was self-defense during a legitimate antidrug operation.
But security camera footage and eyewitness testimony published by Reuters on Monday contradicted the police report and suggested they may have executed the three men.
“They come out with damaging reports about the PNP when we are about to return,” Dela Rosa told reporters at the Supreme Court. “That means our enemies really don’t want us to return to the war on drugs.”
In October, Duterte banned the police from leading antidrug operations, handing the task to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.
Duterte has hinted that he will soon allow police to resume operations, although Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque said “the matter remains pending.”
Police said they have shot dead more than 3,900 drug suspects in self-defense during Duterte’s 17-month antidrug campaign that has triggered growing public distrust and criticism.
One of the men they killed during the Oct. 11 raid was dealing drugs before they arrived, police said, but the footage showed him chatting with friends.
Police said they shot the three men in self-defense after they opened fire on undercover operatives. Residents told Reuters the men were unarmed.
Joel Coronel, chief of Manila Police District, which carried out the raid, said it was a “high-risk” operation against “three suspected drug traffickers reported to be armed and dangerous.”
“So far our reports indicate that we have observed all the rules in police operating procedures,” Coronel said. (Reuters)
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