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HRW Asia director Phelim Kine commented: "The apparent willingness of Philippine police to deliberately target children for execution marks an appalling new level of depravity in this so-called drug war." [302] Duterte called the deaths of Arnaiz and de Guzman (the former being a relative of the President on his mother's side) "sabotage ...
Human rights groups documented about 1,400 suspicious killings in Davao during the 22 years Duterte was mayor and critics say the war on drugs he unleashed when he became president in 2016 bore ...
By the end of Duterte's term, the number of drug suspects killed since Duterte took office was officially tallied by the Philippine government as 6,252. [13] Human rights groups, including the ICC, however, claim drug casualties reached as high as 12,000 to 30,000 [14] and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017. [15] [16]
In accordance with his campaign promise, President Rodrigo Duterte initiated the war on drugs shortly after he took office on June 30, 2016. [9] [10] As of July 26, 2017, the Philippine Information Agency reported 68,000 anti-drug operations which resulted in around 97,000 arrests, 1.3 million surrenders, and around 3,500 drug personalities killed in legitimate police operations. [11]
The Philippines has said its investigation into killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs will be "impartial", a day after its attempt to block a similar probe by the ...
Portraits of alleged victims of the Philippine “war on drugs” are displayed during a protest of Duterte’s State of the Nation Address, in Manila, Monday, July 22, 2019.
More than 6,000 people have been killed in anti-drug operations since Duterte launched his controversial drug war soon after taking office in 2016, according to police data. Many of the ...
Death squads and a war on drugs. Duterte soared to power on a promise to replicate on a national scale his anti-crime crackdown in the family’s stronghold of Davao, winning the 2016 presidential ...