The US and Australia have “considerably toned down” criticism of a drug war in the Philippines in which thousands have been killed, country’s president, Rodrigo Duterte said, The Guardian reports.
During meetings at the presidential palace in Manila, US secretary of state Rex Tillerson and Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop raised the issue of human rights “only in passing”, Duterte said.
“Mostly they have considerably toned down in human rights,” he said.