QUEZON CITY—Eleven out of 10. That’s how the head of the country’s lead anti-drug agency would rate the government’s war on drugs 3 years since it was launched in July 2016.
Director-General Aaron Aquino of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency was asked on Friday to assess the government’s anti-drug efforts at a press conference at the PDEA head office in Quezon City.“We are winning the war on drugs,” he went on to say, citing more than 12,000 drug-cleared barangays and the arrest of more than 155,000 drug offenders.
“Is the drug problem worsening? It’s not. In fact, lahat ng drug operations ng PDEA and PNP, level-up,” he said. But human rights groups have accused the government of waging a deadly and costly campaign that has claimed the lives of more than 27,000 victims, including children who have died as collateral damage. The latest casualty is 3-year-old Myka Ulpina who died in a police operation in Rodriguez, Rizal on Saturday.
The government has continuously denied extrajudicial killings, claiming its law enforcers have also died as a result of the drug war.
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