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Edited by Tsukuyomi Zero: 7/29/2016 6:54:45 AM
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Philippines: hundreds of 'drug pushers' hunted down by death squads. *Distressing*

[i]Article contains distressing images![/i] [quote] *New President Rodrigo Duterte gives police and vigilantes green light to wage unprecedented war on drugs.* Jennelyn Olaires hugs her husband Michael Siaron next to a placard which reads 'I'm a pusher'. The image went viral on social media. Lying in the middle of the road, Jennelyn Olaires hugs the dead body of her partner, refusing to let him go. By the time the forensic team reaches the area, there are already TV cameramen filming the scene, their powerful lights beaming down on Olaires. Michael Siaron, 30, was waiting for passengers when he was gunned down after midnight by unknown men riding a motorbike in Pasay, close to one of Manila's busiest highways, famous for its 24-hour traffic. Near his body, a note reads: "I am a pusher, don't follow." Bar a few drug dealers' corpses, Rodrigo Roa Duterte's Philippines is off to a good start The world needs to come together again or Ali Mohammed al-Nimr will die How Brazil's favelas are using mobile phones to fight back against police brutality "Michael has been using drugs for one year but never was a dealer", Olaires screams at the cameras, her partner's blood still on her face. The scene was a short ride for the reporters coming from another crime scene, also in Pasay, where unidentified suspect #91 was killed by unknown hit-men. The victim was found dead on the ground with a long streak of blood and a sign tagging him as a drug pusher and thief. Hundreds have been killed in drug-related incidents since Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines, almost two months ago. Meanwhile 120,000 reported drug offenders voluntarily surrendered to the police force. So far[u] Duterte enjoys the highest trust rate in Philippine history.[/u] Extrajudicial killings are not new to the Philippines; this is how media has been documenting casualties of the drug war, updating a "kill list". That night, the body count started at 9.30 pm, witnessed by reporters stationed at Manila central police station. The group got the first call only a few minutes after coming on duty. Redentor Manalang, 50, had just been murdered by unknown hit-men, while driving his tricycle. An epitaph was left behind : "don't emulate me". "One week ago, we had 18 dead, that was a very long night", says Patrick Adalin, a photographer for the local tabloid Abante. "Due to all ongoing operations, something is happening every single night." "We are many more journalists than before", added Noche Cacas, working the graveyard shift for one year now. Cacas uses a talkie-walkie to do live reports for DZRH, a local radio station. Based on official police data and local news reports, there has been on average 10 killed daily in drug-related incidents all over the country. As of 25 July, the death toll since 10 May – a day after Rodrigo Duterte was elected – has reached 430 according to The Daily Inquirer, 579 according to TV news channel ABS-CBN. Of the 579 there were 377 killed by the police, 154 by vigilante groups and 48 victims of "salvage". Most of the time, salvage means wrapped in plastic and dumped. "That death toll dwarfs the 68 killings of suspects that police recorded during anti-drug operations between January 1 and June 15", wrote Phelim Kine, Asia deputy director of Human Rights Watch. The police denied accusations of extrajudicial killings and said suspects ended up dead because they resisted arrest or fought back. Philipines Police officers investigate the dead body of an alleged drug dealer, his face covered with packing tape and a placard reading 'I'm a pusher', on a street in Manila. Since the beginning of the anti-drug campaign, 3,600 drugs offenders have been arrested and 120,000 reported drug offenders voluntarily surrendered, including 7,000 pushers. Officials claimed a positive effect on petty crimes and have even dubbed the phenomenon "the Duterte effect". Crime has decreased by 13% since Duterte won the presidency, according to the government, while petty crime - including bag-snatching at tourist areas - has also dropped significantly, the Philippines' presidential communications office claimed. Yet concerns rise over the surge in killings of mostly poor people. The Commission on Human Rights recently launched a test probe on 103 cases, including 33 drug-related killings during a police operation. Enshrined in the country's constitution, the independent CHR looked into the summary killings associated with the "Davao Death Squad" linked to Rodrigo Duterte, when he was still the mayor of the southern city. No clear evidence of his responsibility was revealed. "The problem with this kind of killing is, we would never know who is more deserving to be killed, this pedicab driver even assuming he is a drug pusher or the persons who killed him. Worst, those who are killed die with their names tarnished as a drug pusher or a criminal. Never mind if it is true, but what if it is not true?" said one critic, Noly Sosteza, on Facebook. In his first state of the nation address on Monday (25 July), President Rodrigo Duterte compared the photo to Michelangelo's Pieta : "And you are portrayed in a broadsheet like Mother Mary cradling the dead cadaver of Jesus Christ. To those who have done so, you are dramatising her." TV crews and reporters encircle Jennelyn Olaires and her husband Michael Siaron, who was shot dead by an unidentified gunman in Manila. Duterte said pushers should only blame themselves for being slain for their activities. Last month, he named publicly top drug dealers among high-ranking officials, forcing them to resign. So far President Duterte enjoys the highest trust rate (91%) in the archipelago's history, according to the latest poll released by Pulse Asia. For most Filipinos, the new administration should prioritise economic issues, including antipoverty programs. The immediate address of criminality comes second (48% of surveyed). An estimated of 1.3 million Filipinos are drug users and more than 99% of Metro Manila barangays (the smallest administrative division) are affected, according to the Dangerous Drugs Board. Metamphetamine or "shabu" is the drug of choice, imported by foreign cartels, now produced locally. It is also considered one of the most addictive substances. "There will not be a let-up in this campaign against illegal drugs, promised Duterte during his speech to the Congress. "We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier, or the last pusher is put behind bars or below the ground if they so wish." [/quote] To be honest, I don't know what makes me more sick, that people are being indiscriminately slaughtered with Gov't "approval". Or the fact that the President has the highest trust rating in the countries history (for purging it's Citizens.)

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  • Sounds like a scene on a star wars movie.

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  • I realllllllly hope my cousins isn't involved in this, half my cousins live in Manila...

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  • Slaughtering them like it's the night of the long knives isn't a good option. Capturing the drug lords and having them responsible for the killings the subordinates do is a better option.

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  • Everybody talks about the bad things that he did...

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  • I am still ok with this

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  • Good. We ought to have an open season on criminals over here

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    • [quote]If it's stupid but works, it ain't stupid.[/quote]

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    • All the Americans here in complete support of this might as well take a huge dump on our constitutional rights and due process. Just saying.

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    • But but but drugs are bad mkay

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      • Edited by Dunbrack Rooney: 8/1/2016 3:10:04 AM
        ITT: Right Wingers show their complete lack of regard for human life and due process. [spoiler]So we can't take guns away from people on the terrorist watch list because of due process, but we should kill people without it. Makes sense, totally isn't hypocrisy[/spoiler]

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      • Good to see someone's doing something against drugs. Support 100%

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        • I heard about this guy when he was running for president and to be fair he did actually run on doing this. Death squads and indiscriminate killing was kind of a campaign pledge for him. He also ran a pro [b]r[/b]ape campaign, so the Philippines are kind of getting what they voted for.

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        • [quote]Cause drugs are the worst thing in the world. Not death and destruction or anything, drugs...[/quote] Drugs fuel all those things. Have you ever heard of: •The Hells Angels •The Italian Mafia •Mexican Drug Cartels •The Yakuza •The Bloods •The Crips •The Chinese Triads etc These groups are all responsible for numerous deaths, and other crimes. Guess where most the money they have that lets them get away with such things? Drugs are a disease that destroy peoples, lives while fuelling groups like I listed. You think about the poor drug pushers, and their deaths as horrible inhumane acts, while completely forgetting the innocents caught up in drug turf wars shot by bullets paid for with drugs. Or the women forced into prostitution by drug addiction

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          • Good.

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          • He told them he wasn't -blam!-ing around Lool

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          • Well I'm having Bali 9 flashbacks

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          • No matter what any president does it will always be criticized. I think this is horrible, no democracy, however the influence this will have will maybe deter drugs. Idk politics are tricky

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          • This should happen the ghetto neighborhoods in the U. S. Would definitely help.

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            • Good. Drug dealers and users are a scourge. He, the president works for the people, and the people are tired of drugs and drug related issues. So he is dealing with it. Tell me more about how this will not effect the use and distribution of drugs? Pretty damn sure the idea of you being gunned down in the streets or in your own home and body left out for all to see would be a great deterrent not to do dumb shit.

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              • Can you blame him? When a problem gets to this point you have to do something drastic. What will scare them more? A few arrests, or a group getting wiped? Then again it could backfire and cause more retaliation.

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                • This is an actual War on Drugs. When you're dealing with people who are basically scum and only know violence this isn't a half-bad way to get rid of them.

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                  • A literal war on drugs.

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                  • Edited by Herakles: 7/30/2016 5:05:52 PM
                    I'm from the Philippines , and trust me: in the situation the Philippines is in right now, they need this badly. #DU30 [quote]Over a period of 20 years, he turned Davao City from the "murder capital of the Philippines" to what tourism organisations now describe as "the most peaceful city in southeast Asia," and what numbeo.com ranks as the world's fourth safest place[/quote]This dude was the mayor of one of the most dangerous cities in the Philippnes, and he gets shit done.

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                    • Before he became president, their government was filled with corrupt officials. During his presidential campaign, Duterte said that he would remove all of the corrupt members if he became president and would wage his aggressive war on drugs which will be taking place all over the country. So with that, of course over 90% of the citizens there would provide him with overwhelming support. And it seems like his system is definitely producing results. During just two months of his presidency, the crime rate has been reduced by 13% which is in turn making his country safer.

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                      • He's effective. I believe 300,000 drug addicts had turned themselves in.

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