Two United Nations experts have urged the government to launch a “full and independent” investigation into the killing of three indigenous people or lumad leaders in Surigao del Sur earlier this month.

UN Special Rapporteur on human rights, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, and Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst said the perpetrators of the crime should be brought to justice.

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