Filipino girl Amber Baysa, 8, sitting on a piece of wood as she looks out to a trash-filled Manila Bay near their shanty home, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Tondo, Manila on Tuesday (Oct 6, 2020). - Reuters
MANILA,Oct 6 (AP): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (pic, below) said that like his fierce critics, he has also suspected that extrajudicial killings may have happened under his drug crackdown that has killed thousands of people.
He said in televised remarks Monday night he had once inquired into the brutal deaths and was told some drug dealers may have been killed due to rivalry among syndicates or for stealing drug money.
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