THERE is no stopping the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights from conducting an inquiry into a spate of drug-related killings in the country, after majority of members of the panel agreed to proceed with the probe.

Senator Leila de Lima, chairman of the committee, on Thursday said the hearing is set for August 22 and 23 and the first to give their testimonies will be witnesses to the supposed extrajudicial killings.

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