A Philippine senator who initially led President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war sparked outrage Thursday when he dismissed the killing of a toddler in a police anti-narcotics operation with an expletive and as collateral damage.
A Philippine senator who initially led President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly drug war sparked outrage Thursday when he dismissed the killing of a toddler in a police anti-narcotics operation with an expletive and as collateral damage.Ex-Philippine police chief Ronald Dela Rosa, who won a Senate seat in May, made the comments as police burned 1.4 tons of seized narcotics while warning the nation still faced a flood of illegal drugs.
“Of course you need to secure everything — no collateral damage. But if you infiltrate, it’s not really possible,” Dela Rosa told a news conference, dismissing allegations by the dead girl’s family that the father had been unarmed. The Commission on Human Rights, an independent government agency, said Friday it will investigate the shooting.
Duterte had suspended the drug war twice in the past two years as the government investigated alleged abuses by drug police, but later allowed them to continue without significant reforms.
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