(UPDATE) FORMER president Rodrigo Duterte took full legal responsibility for the alleged involvement of some policemen in extrajudicial killings (EJK) and offered no apologies for his bloody war on drugs that claimed the lives of more than 6,000 suspects — mostly poor men — without the benefit of a trial.

Attending the first Senate Blue Ribbon subcommittee hearing on his war on drugs, Duterte defended his campaign, which is also being investigated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over allegations of crimes against humanity.

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