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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 drug war and alleged extrajudicial killings victims light the candles to remember the victims. November 30: Various groups nationwide staged the protests on Bonifacio Day [232] with the caricatures of Duterte, along with President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, were shown. [233]
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]
To date, however, no independent Philippine investigation has been made into Duterte’s drug war. Read More: Leila de Lima Is Free but Not Finished Fighting: Exclusive Q&A With Duterte’s ...
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]
A Philippine court has dropped drugs charges against one of the most vocal critics of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “war on drugs,” ending a long legal battle that had seen the ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appointed his main political rival, Leni Robredo, his "drugs tsar", after the opposition leader expressed alarm about the death toll in an anti-narcotics ...
Inquiries on the drug war were held by the House of Representatives' Quad Committee and the Senate Blue Ribbon sub-committee in October 2024. Duterte attended the Senate inquiry and transcripts from the hearings was later submitted to the ICC by Duterte's staunch critic, former Senator Antonio Trillanes. [24] [25]