Even with a recalibrated approach to the government’s war against illegal drugs, a total of 61 people have been killed by law enforcers since President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022, according to the Philippine National Police. | BPinlacINQ
PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo told INQUIRER.net that between July 1 and December 31, 2022, 61 alleged drug offenders were slain in the government’s anti-illegal drug operations.“Kasama na po joint operation diyan with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency ,” she explained in a text message on Wednesday.
But according to Dahas, a monitoring project run by the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Third World Studies Center, there were 175 drug-related killings in the country during Marcos’ first few months as President, or between 12 noon of June 30 and December 31, 2022.
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