Rodrigo Duterte ‘legalises’ murder of drug dealers in Philippines

EVEN before Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte told citizens he would give a medal to anyone who shot dead a drug dealer in a national address at the weekend, the bodies were starting to pile up..

But since that speech, at least five people allegedly connected to the drug trade as well as an indeterminate number of low level pushers have been exterminated by street assassins.

Unlike the hundreds of petty criminals and drug pushers who have “involuntarily…

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