MSEditorial The war on drugs, Marcos-style Duterte had ordered law enforcers to “destroy” the apparatus of drug traders and to shoot drug offenders if they felt that their lives were endangered. READ:
That was the answer of then presidential candidate Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr. when asked during the campaign for the May 9 general elections what he intended to do with the bloody war on drugs unleashed by Rodrigo Duterte from July 2016 to end-June 2022.
Duterte had ordered law enforcers to “destroy” the apparatus of drug traders and to shoot drug offenders if they felt that their lives were endangered.The inevitable result? More than 6,200 drug suspects were officially acknowledged by the government as having been killed in anti-drug operations because they allegedly fought back .
The Philippine National Police reported recently that close to 50 suspects have been killed in anti-drug operations five months under the Marcos Jr. administration.
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