Davao’s renewed war on drugs

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It is true, as somebody said many decades ago, that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.

Last month, Davao City Mayor Sebastian Duterte, son of the former president, issued a stern warning against those using illegal drugs in the city during the turnover ceremony of the new Davao City police chief: “Kung hindi kayo aalis, kung hindi kayo titigil, papatayin ko kayo.” Barely a week after Mayor Duterte declared his own war on drugs, seven drug personalities, two of them high-value targets at city level, have been killed in police operations.

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