Duterte critics laud UN vote to scrutinize drug killings

MANILA, Philippines --- Critics of President Rodrigo Duterte's deadly anti-drug campaign said that a vote by the U.N.'s top human rights body to look into the thousands of deaths of suspects is a crucial step toward bringing perpetrators to justice and helping end the killings. Duterte's spokesman, however, condemned the resolution adopted by the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva as Western meddling in Philippine government affairs and questioned the validity of the narrow vote. A former police chief said he was ready to have his head chopped off if the killings were state-sponsored. About 6,600 people, most of them accused of petty drug crimes, have been killed in the crackd...

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