Police are accused of unlawfully killing thousands of civilians between 2016 and 2019 during drug crackdown

The international criminal court’s chief prosecutor has sought authorisation to open an investigation into crimes against humanity during the Philippines’ deadly “war on drugs”, in one of her last acts before stepping down this week.

Fatou Bensouda asked judges at the world’s only permanent war crimes court to authorise an investigation into allegations that police unlawfully killed as many as tens of thousands of civilians between 2016 and 2019.

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Source: The Guardian