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Trece Martires
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 tonnes (over 3,000 pounds) of seized narcotics while warning the nation still faced a flood of illegal drugs. Authorities said a three-year-old girl was killed Sunday in a sting operation outside Manila. Her father, a drug suspect, as well as an undercover police officer were also shot dead.
“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.
Trece Martires
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 tonnes (over 3,000 pounds) of seized narcotics while warning the nation still faced a flood of illegal drugs. Authorities said a three-year-old girl was killed Sunday in a sting operation outside Manila. Her father, a drug suspect, as well as an undercover police officer were also shot dead.
“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.
