Rodrigo Duterte's 'Death Squads' Fought in the Philippines' War on Drugs. Now He Might Get Life in Prison.
As many as 30,000 people may have died at the hands of the state-sponsored death squads.
As many as 30,000 people may have died at the hands of the state-sponsored death squads.
His understanding of effective leadership and policing should repel anyone who cares about civil liberties and the rule of law.
And once again, Trump is distracted from real policy by symbolic brutality.
"My only sin is the extrajudicial killings."
Death squads are after Father Amado Picardal, an early critic of the Philippine drug war.
Doubling down on a drug war that has failed for 40 years.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who likens himself to Hitler, promotes the mass murder of drug users.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte follows prohibitionist logic to its lethal conclusion.
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