A police investigator inspects a plastic bag of Methamphetamine, locally named Shabu, worth 120 million pesos ($2.41 million), that were confiscated during a drug-buy bust police operation in a mall at a Guadalupe city, metro Manila, Philippines November 21, 2016. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has shifted millions of dollars in funding for Philippines law enforcement away from police drug control programs, State Department officials said on Monday, since the start of the country's bloody crackdown on drugs this summer.
The Obama administration and human rights groups have criticized Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, and U.S. officials have said they are "deeply concerned" by reports of extrajudicial killings in the drug campaign. Duterte has in turn rebuked the United States and rejected the criticisms.
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