The Philippines is facing calls for an international investigation on Friday into President Rodrigo Duterte – a day after Edgar Matobato, 57, told a Senate hearings panel investigating Duterte’s current campaign against drugs.
During his testimony, Matobato said he was a member of a “Davao death squad” which had killed hundreds of Duterte opponents and suspected criminals and had even fed a man to a crocodile.
New York-based watchdog group Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Manila to invite the United Nations to probe the claims.
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