'Not a chance' - Philippine minister says no access for UN drugs war probe

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MANILA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - The Philippines will not allow
visits by the United Nations to investigate its bloody war on
drugs, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, calling its human
rights experts "bastards" who had already demonstrated
prejudice.
The United Nations Human Rights Council approved a
resolution in July to compile a comprehensive report on
President Rodrigo Duterte's three-year crackdown, during which
at least 6,700 people have been killed in what police say were
shootouts with dealers who resisted arrest. Thousands of mostly urban poor drug users have also been
killed, many in mysterious circumstances. Human rights groups
accuse police of systematic cover-ups and summary executions of
anyone associated with drugs, which police reject.
Asked in a television interview if U.N. investigators would
be allowed to work in the Philippines, Foreign Secretary Teodoro
Locsin said: "No. Because they have already prejudged."
"I already said those bastards - especially that woman
acting like the queen in Alice in Wonderland - first, the
judgment, then the trial. No."
Locsin was referring to Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special
rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
She has been a staunch critic of Duterte, who has threatened to
slap her and has warned of an even bloodier campaign ahead.
"No - I don't want them coming here and then saying that
everything they have been saying, but have not proved, is true
'because we saw it'. How? Are they going to exhume every body?"
Locsin said.
"No. I'm not going to give them that chance."
The resolution came after a call from 11 U.N. experts
concerned about a "staggering" amount of deaths during Duterte's
signature campaign. Locsin, a former journalist, on Wednesday called it a
"nothing resolution" and "dead" arguing that it had failed
because the votes in favour were fewer than the combined number
of abstentions and votes against it.
Duterte's office has gone further, calling it "grotesquely
one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan".
The president, however, has yet to say he would agree to an
independent probe on Philippines soil, should a request be made.