Philippines
The drug war of Rodrigo Duterte
Since the inauguration of the new Philippine President, the number of killed drug dealer, has greatly increased. Thousands more have been. Duterte celebrate that as a success – but human rights activists are sounding the Alarm.
A cardboard shield covered the body, the face is wrapped in several layers of duct tape. On the sign, someone has scrawled with a felt – tip pen “drug dealer” – which will probably apply at the same time as justification and as a warning. Daily photos and reports of the killed drug dealer in the social networks. Data from the Philippine police, is to be alone in the first two weeks after the inauguration of the new President, Rodrigo 135 suspected drug dealers and more than 1,800 arrested Duterte have been killed. Down expected in the first half of July are 10 Dead and 140 Arrested per day.
Duterte had promised in the election campaign, the illegal drug trade and the crime within a period of six months to eradicate. This brought him in the presidential elections in June, a landslide victory. Duterte repeated the promise in his inaugural speech, and announced that his war against the drug trade will be “persistent” and “relentless”. He called on the Filipino people to support him in his fight against crime, and put bounties on the capture or killing of drug dealers.
The population is made up of supplied the police with more and more Clues to a suspected drug dealer, officers searched the suspicious flats, and the local mayor poured rewards for every newly arrested dealers. The mayor of Cebu, the second largest business metropolis in the Philippines, promised its police officers a bounty of 50,000 Philippine Pesos (about 900 US dollars) for each killed drug boss.
“We’re just doing our Job”
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Philippines: the President is dividing the country
“More than 66,000 Dealer and consumers have provided to the authorities, and our sources tell us now that the street crime across the country declined,” reported the spokesman of the Philippine national police, Dionardo Carlos. He denied that his officials would accept rewards for the arrest of a Suspect, but admitted that the police could not “stop” when the local mayor “incentives” would, in order to improve the fight against crime. “The Philippine national police is a professional organization,” said Carlos. “We don’t work according to a bonus system. We’re just doing our Job.” How, the draws in a leading newspaper of the country: with the publication of a daily death list that documents the number of police Killed.
Police spokesman Carlos defended the killings as self-defense: “These people had opted in the fight against the police. Our officials have defended themselves. Any misconduct on the part of the police is checked by a own investigation.” A Review by the Philippine Senate, was referred to by the head of the state police Ronald dela Rosa, however, as “legal sophistry”, which was only meant to be “the morality police to undermine it”.
Human rights activists are appalled. “These killings and the refusal of the government to condemn you, or a Commission of inquiry set up inevitably leads to more fear, uncertainty, and self-justice,” said Phelim Kine, Asia Director of Human Rights Watch.
Mass attendance in the relief centers
At the same time, Joy is no longer coming in behind Belmonte with their work. Belmonte is the Vice mayor of Quezon City and the Director of the municipal anti-drug program. Up to the 15. July had reported in the town of 3,000 people to the authorities. “But the Numbers are increasing daily,” says Belmonte. “Every day, people come to us to ask. Even Nine-Year-Old. You tell us that you are afraid to be, or even killed caught. So you prefer to give.”
Belmonte collected from each individual and the degree of drug use, in order to separate irregular consumers of heavy Addicts. “The occasional consumer. Then you can go home. The Addicts need therapy,” says Belmonte. Since 2010, she is at her Job, but such a rush at the drug counselling centres of the country have never experienced before. Currently, there are 45 counseling – this was already during the time of the previous government too little. Now, the centers collapse under the onslaught of the people almost. The government has accepted the problem and is trying to stomp other regional assistance centers throughout the country from the ground up.
Citizen protests
Filipinos with self-painted cardboard drug policy, signs protest against the Dutertes Anti
However, the rigid anti-drug policy of the Philippine authorities don’t push beyond the walls of the consent. “I read a newspaper article that the Philippine police chief cited with the words: ‘We have already caught so many. Shall we stop about now?'”, upset Hope Swann: “the wrath of dawn shot me in the face. I just had to do something.” The 29-year-old University Professor, grabbed a cardboard box and wrote “We are all of the possible drug dealer”. Then she hung the sign around his neck and ran all the way from home to Uni. Your student Adrienne Onday it after the fact. Both women are wearing the sign every day on the way to the University and say that you don’t want to take it off, as long as the person responsible to change their policy. Other consequences of your Protest. Under the Hashtag #card Board justice you try to use Twitter to mobilize other citizens, in addition, fellow students from Onday to plan a large Demonstration against the Dutertes anti-drug policy.
Change be well-to-nothing. Too big for the restraint in the population. Also, police chief dela Rosa, the hard-line police defended: “If we don’t make the rule here soon, the drug bosses. Finally we have a President – excuse the expression – eggs, showing the drug cartels, with its zero-tolerance policy time limits.”