By Kristian Javier
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Human Rights on Friday urged the government to continue its war against drugs but without resorting to Oplan Tokhang.
"The Commission on Human Rights denounces the resumption of Operation Tokhang by the Philippine National Police," CHR said in a statement on Friday.
It added that the Philippine National Police should only reinstate the operation when concrete reforms have been introduced and after serious investigations into the extrajudicial killings have been made.
On Monday, President Rodrigo Duterte said that he is open to the resumption of Oplan Tokhang less than a month since the Philippine National Police suspended anti-drug operations over the death of a Korean businessman allegedly abducted and killed by rogue police officers from an anti-narcotics unit.
"I don’t know. I would leave it to the PNP to decide. What do they need? What do they have to do to succeed? I do not meddle in the mechanisms there. What is important for me is finish it, do it, I do not inquire into how, where, what," Duterte said on Monday.
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