The new year began with a slowdown in the rate of murders from Philippines President Duterte’s vicious War on Drugs. This pause seems to have ended with President Duterte recalling his police force into the front line of the War on Drugs. The number of people killed has now reached almost 8,000. Leila de Lima, one of the highest profile critic of these massacres, has been arrested in an attempt to silence her. The murders have also given rise to a new type of investigative journalism, see here and here. President Duterte is now also on the verge of reinstating the death penalty in The Philippines as well as wanting to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years of age.
No to the War on Drugs! No to extrajudicial impunity! Stop the killings!
The new year began with a slowdown in the rate of murders from Philippines President Duterte’s vicious War on Drugs. This pause seems to have ended with President Duterte recalling his police force into the front line of the War on Drugs. The number of people killed has now reached almost 8,000. Leila de Lima, one of the highest profile critic of these massacres, has been arrested in an attempt to silence her. The murders have also given rise to a new type of investigative journalism, see here and here. President Duterte is now also on the verge of reinstating the death penalty in The Philippines as well as wanting to lower the age of criminal liability to nine years of age.
No to the War on Drugs! No to extrajudicial impunity! Stop the killings!
