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The Philippine drug war, known as 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. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country, [ 23] but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by ...
On May 27, 2020, a Human Rights Watch report showed the Impact of the "War on Drugs" in the Philippines. Children and thousands of people have been killed during anti-drug raids, which the authorities have called "collateral damage," since President Rodrigo Duterte launched his "war on drugs" on June 30, 2016.
On July 2, 2018, Antonio Halili, the mayor of Tanauan, Batangas in the Philippines, was shot by an unknown shooter during a flag ceremony at the city hall. He was rushed to a nearby hospital, where was pronounced dead at 8:45 A.M. ( PhST ), less than an hour after the shooting. He was the second mayor of Tanauan to be assassinated after Cesar ...
Facing a U.N. human rights investigation into its bloody war on drugs, the Philippines presented a new death toll on Thursday to counter much higher numbers given by critics. President Rodrigo ...
But it was too late to stop a probe the ICC had started in 2016 that was looking into Duterte’s “ war on drugs ,” a bloody anti-illegal-narcotics campaign defined by mass extrajudicial ...
MANILA, Feb 5 Reuters) - As night falls in Manila, the Philippine capital, few of the 700 families living in the sprawling portside shanty town known as Market 3 dare to venture out of their homes.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik is a Filipino street gang. They are one of the largest and most well-known gangs, whose influence and territory stretched throughout the slums of Tondo, Manila. [ 1] They are one of the gangs present in major penitentiaries in Manila including Manila City Jail and New Bilibid Prison .
2 deaths, including 1 informant. 3 injured. On February 24, 2021, a botched buy-bust operation resulted in a shootout between units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. [1] The incident resulted in the deaths of two police officers, a PDEA agent and an ...