DEATH SQUADS IN THE PHILIPPINES AND PRESIDENT DUTERTE

That this House condemns in the strongest terms the extra-judicial killings of drug users in the Philippines; expresses the deepest concern that the killings come as a result of newly inaugurated President, Rodrigo Duterte, telling citizens to form death squads and in his words to go ahead and kill drug addicts; considers that those with addictions deserve support to beat their addictions rather than punishment, and certainly not murder; and calls on the Government to make strong representations to President Duterte and express the alarm at which this development was met by hon. Members.