REPORT ON INVESTIGATED KILLINGS
IN RELATION TO THE ANTI-ILLEGAL DRUG CAMPAIGN
ii. The firearm placed near the victim was the same firearm used by the police61;
iii. Witnesses personally saw that police outright planted pieces of evidence in or near
the dead body62;
iv. Witnesses confirmed that victim used a firearm, but different from the one specified
in the police report63;
v. Different position of the dominant hand in relation to the gun found near the dead
body64; or,
vi. Victims tested negative in paraffin testing.65
In three incidents,66 relatives, who are witnesses to the killings, claimed that the
firearm found in or near the cadavers of the victims were planted by the police.
f. Intended targets of the police operations
In cases analyzed that were replete with official documents, pre-operation reports,
coordination forms with PDEA, and court-issued documents were made available to
CHR. In these official documents, the names or aliases of subjects are indicated therein
as targets of the operations.
However, some victims were not in fact the intended targets named in the police
documents. In at least 26 incidents, police accounts—whether or not the abovementioned documents were present—reflect names of killed or injured victims that
were either alleged as the cohort of,67 coincidentally found68 with the named subjects
in the preparatory preparatory records, mistaken for someone,69 or a mere casualty70
from the firefight.
61
CHR IV-A 2018-0844.
62
CHR IV-A 2018-0845.
63
CHR IV-A 2019-0772.
64
CHR IV-A 2017-0346, CHR IV-A 2019-0284.
65
CHR IV-A 2018-0569, CHR IV-A 2019-0392, CHR NCR 2017-0010.
66
CHR X 2016-0432, CHR X 2019-0056, CHR NCR 2018-0236.
67
CHR IX 2016-0607, CHR XII 2018-0190, CHR NCR 2019-0474 and 2019-0475.
68
CHR III 2017-0191, CHR III 2019-0248 and 2019-0250, CHR IV-A 2016-0313, CHR IV-A 2017-0406, CHR IV-A 2018-0387, CHR IV-A 2019-0678, CHR
VI 2016-0238, CHR V 2016-0338, CHR X 2019-0234/2019-0237/2019-0230, CHR XII 2020-0097, CHR NCR 2019-0495, CHR VII 2016-0980.
69
CHR IO 2018-0033.
70
CHR VII 2017-0614, CHR VII 2019-0379, CHR IV-A 2016-0428/2016-0373, CHR XII 2018-0166, CHR NCR 2019-1047, CHR VII 2017-0033, CHR VII
2017-0651, CHR VII 2017-0652, CHR VII 2017-0653.
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