Three years into the Philippine government’s “war on drugs,” extrajudicial executions at the hands of the police and their associates continue. Amnesty International has just come out with an extensive report on the killings. Host Marco Werman gets details from Rawya Rageh, senior crisis adviser at Amnesty International USA.
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