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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.
Relatives of lost loved ones in the drug war campaign gathered at Christ the King seminary in Quezon City for prayer. [195] March 27: Youth Resist held a protest a day before Duterte's 74th birthday to condemn the killings of the 74 teenagers during the war on drugs. [196] April 2
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]
He launched a blood war on drugs campaign. Officially, 6,229 drug personalities have been killed as of March 2022. [14] News organizations and human rights groups claim the death toll is over 12,000. [15] [16] The Philippine National Police led the drug war through Oplan Double Barrel which began in 2016. [17]
Duterte has acknowledged that the war on drugs has been difficult to control due to the country's long coastline and corruption. [218] He asked president-elect Bongbong Marcos to continue the war on drugs in his own way; [219] Duterte declined an appointment offer as Marcos' drug czar, expressing a desire to retire. [220]
[208] [209] Though many human rights note that Duterte's war on drugs was a stain on his legacy, [210] the anti-narcotics drive received domestic approval during his term, [211] [212] [213] and 58% of the country's barangays were declared by the government cleared of illegal drugs by February 2022. [214] [215]
Protest by local human rights groups, remembering the victims of the drug war, October 2019. Senator Risa Hontiveros, an opponent of Duterte, said that the drug war was a political strategy intended to persuade people that "suddenly the historically most important issue of poverty was no longer the most important." [1]
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]