File photo of media surrounding a worker in Manila, Philippines, on Sept 17, 2021 as he exhumes the remains of a victim of alleged extrajudicial killings under Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs.". - AP
MANILA (Reuters): An initial investigation by the Philippine government has found 154 police officers could be criminally liable over their conduct in President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody war on drugs, in a rare admission by the state that abuses may have taken place.
The findings, announced by the Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Sunday, come just a few weeks after the International Criminal Court (ICC) approved a formal investigation into thousands of state killings of alleged drug dealers since Duterte took office in 2016.
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