A ranking member of the US foreign relations committee, Senator Benjamin Cardin claims that alleged extrajudicial killings in the Philippines is not an “occasional error or the over-zealous application of force,” rather, a “systematic, wide-spread, brutal, and beyond the bounds for a constitutional democracy.”
“If the current trends continue we can expect that over 6,000 people will be dead as a result of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines by the end of this year. 6,000 people,” Cardin pointed out in a conversation with US Senator Patrick Leahy.
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