MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s failure to halt violent anti-drug raids has emboldened local executives like Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte to revive his father’s “war on drugs,” a human rights group said on Monday.
“The new spate of killings in Davao City and elsewhere shows that President Marcos has not done enough to end the ‘drug war,’” said Bryony Lau, deputy Asia director at Human Rights Watch . “The sad reality is that these killings never ended, and the thousands of victims and their families in Davao City and elsewhere struggle without a remedy or justice,” Lau added.
HRW said that local officials like Sebastian will continue to justify killings of alleged drug dealers and users unless Marcos orders a policy shift to end targeted killings and states that those responsible for unlawful deaths will be fully prosecuted. Filipinos seem to want more members of the Tulfo family at the Senate after a recent OCTA Research survey showed significant...
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