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By Patricia Lourdes Viray
MANILA, Philippines — Detained Sen. Leila De Lima criticized President Rodrigo Duterte and the Philippine National Police (PNP) for denying that killings of suspected drug offenders were state-sponsored.
In a one-page handwritten letter addressed to Duterte, the PNP and "other presidential defenders," the senator slammed the administration's demand for "solid proof" of state-sponsored killings.
"Stop insulting our intelligence... Stop fooling our people and the rest of the world," De Lima said in her letter.
"As I keep on saying — truth has become the first major casualty in their so-called war on drugs," the senator added.
The letter came a day after New York-based Human Rights Watch released a report on Duterte's drug war.
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