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Philippine police officer jailed for killing teens in ‘drug war’

Relatives of drug war victims hold photographs of their slain loved ones with placards calling for justice, during a protest in Manila, the Philippines, in June 2021 [File: Eloisa Lopez/Reuters]

A police officer in the Philippines has been found guilty of murdering two teenagers in a rare conviction linked to the country’s so-called “war on drugs” in which former President Rodrigo Duterte urged officers to eliminate drug suspects, local media reported.

More than 6,200 people, according to official figures, were killed in the bloody anti-narcotics campaign during Duterte’s six-year term which ended in 2022.

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