Bagama't 177 pulis ang iniulat na kinasuhan sa ilalim ng administrasyong Marcos para sa mga paglabag na may kaugnayan sa droga, mayroon lamang dalawang nahatulan ng korte na may kaugnayan sa digmaang droga ni Duterte.
Bilang pangulo, ilang beses na binago ni Rodrigo Duterte ang kanyang posisyon sa mga pangunahing isyu, tulad ng kanyang mga pangakong tapusin ang katiwalian at sugpuin ang ilegal na droga sa bansa.
Iniulat ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency noong Oktubre 9 na bumaba ang bilang ng mga nasawi sa anti-drug operations ng ahensya mula 40 noong 2020 - 2021 hanggang 19 noong 2022 - 2023. Bukod dito, ang Dahas Project ng UP Third World Studies Center, na sumusubaybay sa mga pagkamatay na may kaugnayan sa droga sa bansa, ay nagtala ng 438 na pagpatay na may kaugnayan sa droga mula Hunyo 30, 2022 hanggang Oktubre 15, 2023. Ayon sa database nito, 195 sa mga ito ay may kinasasangkutan ng mga ahente ng estado at 145 ay may "hindi kilalang" mga salarin na nananatili malaya.
If the Philippine government refuses to cooperate with an international inquiry of the bloody “Tokhang” operations during the Duterte administration, then it should undertake an investigation of the alleged role of former president Rodrigo Duterte to show it is not protecting perpetrators of crimes against humanity and other atrocities. The demand for a probe came
While Malacanang continued to remain silent, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said he will advise Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra to stop engaging with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its rejection of the government’s appeal to stop the resumption of the investigation on the Philippines’ war on drugs
Nagpatay-patayan si Efren Morillo para makaligtas sa Oplan Tokhang noong 2016. ‘Yung apat na kasama niya patay lahat. Pinaghinalaan silang nagdodroga. Pakinggan natin ang kwento ni Efren dito sa Episode 1 ng Season 2 ng What the F?! Podcast ng VERA Files.
Is it farfetched to think that police officers themselves have formed their own drug syndicate, competing with those they should be busting?
More than six months have passed and the people involved are coming out with more conflicting statements about what happened. When can we see an end to this? Would more generals get embroiled in this case?
The government has suffered another setback in its effort to stop the investigation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on drug-related crimes during the Duterte administration as an office of public lawyers in the tribunal shot down all the arguments it presented. In an April 18 submission, the Office of Public Counsel for Victims (OPCV)
It presents a good opportunity for the good men in the PNP and the PDEA to purge the bad ones and restore the public’s trust in the organization.
