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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
[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]
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.
Duterte had withdrawn membership in 2018 after the court's prosecutor announced a preliminary examination into thousands of killings in Duterte's war on drugs. An investigation into Duterte's ...
One widow, who lost her husband in a vigilante killing, said she had four words for the country's president: 'Kill drugs, not people.'
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]
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 ...