SEEKING LEGAL CLOSURE Human rights lawyers Joel Butuyan and Gilbert Andres along withfamilies of drugwar victimsfile their petition at the Supreme Court on Friday.—MARIANNE BERMUDEZ
Human rights lawyers on Friday petitioned the Supreme Court to nullify a 2016 police memorandum that laid down former President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war policy, saying it remained ”in effect” in their view.
They also asked the high court to rule on their petitions seeking judicial protection for families victimized by the drug war.
The memo titled “Project: Double Barrel,” signed on July 1 ten years ago by then Philippine National Police chief Gen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, marked both drug syndicates and smalltime peddlers and users as PNP targets. But the ensuing antinarcotic operations mostly focused on urban poor communities where, according to rights watchdogs, as many as 30,000 were killed.
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