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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 ...
Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman were three teenagers who were killed on August 16 to 18, 2017, during the course of the Philippine drug war.. On the evening of August 16, 2017, a 17-year-old Filipino student named Kian Loyd delos Santos was fatally shot by police officers conducting an anti-drug operation in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
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.
The Philippines has said its investigation into killings during former President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs will be "impartial", a day after its attempt to block a similar probe by the ...
Kristina Conti, a lawyer for some of the families of drug war victims, said she hoped the decision “will be a turn in the tide against impunity in the Philippines.” “Victims of Duterte’s ...
The Philippine justice secretary pledged on Tuesday to launch an investigation after a forensic pathologist said some death certificates issued for victims of the country's crackdown on drugs had ...
The Philippine drug war was launched by the Philippine National Police (PNP) on July 1, 2016, a day after Duterte was sworn in as president. [8] According to an estimate cited by ICC prosecutor Karim Khan, the campaign resulted in the deaths of around 12,000 to 30,000 individuals, and the killings reached their peak between 2016 and 2017.
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.