Malacañang on Friday slammed a report recently released by an international human rights group, which said President Rodrigo Duterte triggered a “human rights calamity” as he waged a bloody war on drugs during his first year in power.

In a news conference, Presidential Communications Secretary Ana Maria Paz Banaag said the government’s war against illegal drugs cannot be considered a human rights calamity as it seeks to protect the people.

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