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The Philippine drug war, known as the War on Drugs, is the intensified anti-drug campaign that began during the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte, who served office from June 30, 2016, to June 30, 2022. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country, [ 23] but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by ...
The New People's Army is against Duterte's war against drugs, especially on government officials, police, and the military until the present. [38] A poll released in September 2019 found that the war on drugs has an 82% satisfaction rate among Filipino citizens. [39] Additionally, in that same poll, Duterte's approval rating was at 78%.
The Philippine drug war was launched by the Philippine National Police (PNP) on July 1, 2016, a day after Duterte was sworn in as president. [8] According to an estimate cited by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, the campaign resulted in the deaths of around 12,000 to 30,000 individuals, and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017.
Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court ruled Tuesday that an investigation into the Philippines' deadly “war on drugs” can resume, rejecting Manila’s objections to the case going ...
By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed on Monday to sustain the momentum of his bloody war on drugs, telling the nation in an annual ...
But it was too late to stop a probe the ICC had started in 2016 that was looking into Duterte’s “ war on drugs ,” a bloody anti-illegal-narcotics campaign defined by mass extrajudicial ...
The Philippine government also said that Iceland may have been fed with inaccurate information about the Philippines’ war on drugs, as the former has no embassy in the Philippines. The Presidential Spokesperson called the resolution "grotesquely one-sided, outrageously narrow, and maliciously partisan."
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 ...