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“Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri says he has not heard nor seen drug war-related killings under the new administration.”
Migz Zubiri Claim dated 7 Nov 2022.
Vera Files rated thisFalse

What Vera Files found

The Philippine National Police reported on Nov. 14 that 46 deaths occurred in 18,505 anti-drug operations since the Marcos administration assumed power on June 30. The police claimed the 46 individuals killed were suspects who resisted arrest. For its part, the Third World Studies Center in the University of the Philippines, through its drug war killings monitoring project called Dahas, attributed the deaths of 127 Filipinos to the anti-drug campaign under the Marcos administration, as of Nov...

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In short

Migz Zubiri made this claim around 7 November 2022. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 16 November 2022, 9 days later. Its rating was “False”.

Migz Zubiri has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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