By Audrey Morallo
MANILA, Philippines — A top drug policy monitoring body joined the wave of international condemnation of the Philippines' war on illegal drugs, which it says goes against international drug conventions.
In its in its 2016 annual report, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) also called the government’s attention on its plan to use death penalty as a tool in its fight against illegal narcotics.
A United Nations-affiliated agency, the INCB said that all efforts of governments should be undertaken within the due process of law.
“The Board wishes to bring once again to the attention of all Governments that extrajudicial action, purportedly taken in pursuit of drug control objectives, is fundamentally contrary to the provisions and objectives of the three international drug control conventions, under which all actions must be undertaken within the due process of law,” the report said.
The INCB said that it had issued a statement calling on the Philippine government to issue an immediate and unequivocal condemnation and denunciation of the killings of individuals suspected of involvement in the illegal drug trade.
In the same statement, the body said that it also called on the government to put an immediate stop to such actions and bring the perpetrators of such acts to justice.
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