Police officers and government officials were involved with death squads responsible for killing more than 800 people in the southern Philippines, an international human rights group said.
Human Rights Watch said 814 suspected drug dealers, petty criminals and street children were killed by death squads between 1998 and February 2009 in Davao City, with victims as young as 14.
The group urged President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to investigate the killings.
'Death squads killed 800, rights group says
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