“The emphasis should not just be on reducing the drug supply but also on reducing the demand for illegal drugs” WAS Rodrigo Duterte’s war on illegal drugs
“The emphasis should not just be on reducing the drug supply but also on reducing the demand for illegal drugs”That’s how Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers, lead chairman of the House Quad Committee that conducted a months-long probe of Duterte’s bloody war on drugs, described it, and the way we see it, it’s not off the mark.It’s not only the scale of the drug war that Duterte unleashed throughout the country that makes it a catastrophic failure.
Interior Secretary Jonvic Remulla went even further, saying that there existed a “grand conspiracy” within the police force to hide criminal activities. Testimonies from witnesses, including retired police colonel and former Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office General Manager Royina Garma, revealed that the Duterte administration offered cash rewards for drug suspects killed, arrests made, and drugs seized.
But the catastrophic failure that Duterte’s war on drugs turned out to be because of the number of people killed and the abuses and corruption it later revealed could well turn out to be a positive thing if he gets his comeuppance for crimes against humanity via the International Criminal Court, or even by our domestic courts if the Department of Justice is really serious in getting to the bottom of things and filing the proper charges against him.
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