MANILA (Reuters) - The United Nations has criticised the Philippines for failing to stop soldiers executing left-wing activists and for turning the other cheek as a death squad picked off street children in a southern city.
In a final report released this week into the murder of hundreds of leftists, journalists, farmers and urban poor, Philip Alston, the U.N. special rapporteur on extra-judicial executions, painted a dim picture of human rights in the Philippines.
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