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| Rodrigo Duterte with his favourite toy. |
'The report stated "the drug campaign-related killings appear to have a widespread and systematic character. The most conservative figure, based on government data, suggests that since July 2016, 8663 people have been killed", but it noted the true total of deaths could be three times as high...' says The Sydney Morning Herald.
President Rodrigo Duterte, himself reportedly addicted to Fentanyl, appears unfazed, passing new laws that allow detention without a warrant.
The regime regularly tags political opponents as 'terrorists' or communists by 'red-tagging' them. Journalists are frequent targets. Such people often end up murdered or jailed.
No mention of the underlying absurdity of prohibition is apparent in reports, even though it is used to justify Duterte's mass murder. Any argument supporting this failed 1930s ideology is nullified by Portugal's success with blanket decriminalisation of drugs, most of which in any case are less harmful than legal alcohol. Prohibition is a form of denialism, in this case more deadly than in most countries.
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