![]() It has been reported that the large-scale expansion of police powers has given officers permission to falsify evidence to justify the extra judicial killings. Since taking office, the President fulfilled that promise and carried out a ' war on drugs' that has led to the deaths of over 12,000 Filipinos. Rodrigo Duterte’s landslide 2016 election was won on an extreme anti-drug platform, publicly promising to kill tens of thousands of criminals and drug addicts. In the 1990s, the Philippines became a temporary theatre of the US-led War on Drugs, but the new millennium saw a boom in the illegal drug industry, mainly marijuana and methamphetamine hydrochloride locally known as shabu. Owing to its geographical location, international drug syndicates often use the Philippines as a transit hub for illegal drug trafficking. The Economist | The Philippine Army Recaptures a City Seized by Muslim Insurgents.Geopolitical Monitor | Family Ties and New Recruits: Abu Sayyaf Proves Hard to Dislodge in the Philippines.Brookings | Terrorism in the Philippines and U.S.-Philippine security cooperation. ![]()
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