DETAINED Sen. Leila de Lima on Sunday described as tragic the supposedly continuous refusal of many Filipinos to reject what she considers a culture of death in the country but said she would never give up on the people.

According to de Lima, several international organizations have criticized the war on illegal drugs of President Rodrigo Duterte, the latest being an assessment by New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the President had unleashed a “human rights calamity” in the Philippines.

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