MANILA -- The confrontation between Rodrigo Duterte and the United Nations over his war on drugs continues to escalate, with the U.N. human rights chief calling for a criminal investigation into the Philippine president's claim to have personally killed suspects.
"The killings committed by Mr. Duterte, by his own admission, at a time when he was a mayor, clearly constitute murder," Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, the high commissioner for human rights, said Tuesday. "It should be unthinkable for any functioning judicial system not to launch investigative and judicial proceedings when someone has openly admitted being a killer."
