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Tag: tokhang

  • CE Commentary: PNP cleansing, seryoso ba?
    Categories Commentary Editor's Pick Podcast

    PNP cleansing, seryoso ba?

    By Christian Esguerra  |  Jan 07, 2023 9:31 AM

    Dapat panagutin ‘yung mga pulis na walang habas na pumatay dahil sa drug war. 

    Benhur Abalos, Philippine National Police, tokhang, War on drugs

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    Categories Commentary

    ‘Ridiculous,’ SC says on drug war records as ‘national security’

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Jun 06, 2021 10:35 PM

    Several times, President Rodrigo Duterte has proudly taken responsibility for the killings in his bloody campaign against illegal drugs. It goes without saying, therefore, that the prosecution of the drug-related killings would have to reach his level.

    Duterte drug war, tokhang

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Bato: PNP should have done ‘internal cleansing’ before launching drug war

    By ROBY ALAMPAY  |  Aug 17, 2020 2:00 PM

    Four years into President Duterte’s War on Drugs – and three years since the death of Caloocan teen Kian delos Santos – Mr. Duterte’s first top cop, then-PNP Chief and now senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, admits: the controversial, bloody war should have started with an “internal cleansing,” targeting “scalawag” members of the police.

    tokhang, War on drugs

  • Figure 4 Timeline of drug-related deaths during lockdown.jpg
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    No let up in ‘Tokhang’ even during lockdown

    By Jamaica Jian G. Gacoscosim and Nixcharl C. Noriega  |  May 18, 2020 6:23 AM

    On April 1, 2020, around 10:30 p.m., Ronald Cumayas, 38, a volunteer, was manning the quarantine checkpoint of Barangay Bagong Silangan in Quezon City when he was fatally shot by four gunmen on board two motorcycles.

    covid-19PH, tokhang

  • North Caloocan residents.png
    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Caloocan communities rise up vs Tokhang as killings continue

    By Mong Palatino  |  Feb 05, 2020 5:59 PM

    The number of drug-related killings in Caloocan is lower (373 deaths, based on a study by Ateneo School of Government) compared with the number of fatalities in Quezon City (400) and Manila (463) as of June 2018 (Ateneo School of Government 2018, 16). Yet, Caloocan is consistently touted as the ‘ground zero’ of Tokhang killings.

    Caloocan, tokhang

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    Categories FACT CHECK News

    VERA FILES FACT CHECK: 3 years into drug war, Duterte again revises drug addict count

    By VERA FILES  |  May 29, 2019 4:43 PM

    Official records do not bear out his claim.

    Duterte, tokhang, War on drugs

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    Categories News

    VERA FILES AT 10: In Payatas, cops do house-to-house drug testing

    By Luz Rimban  |  Apr 27, 2018 6:20 PM

    10 years, 10 stories.

    payatas, tokhang, vera files at 10, War on drugs

  • OFW Luzviminda Siapno,mother of Tokhang victim,  petitions Netflix not o show Amo. Photo from change.org.jpg
    Categories Commentary

    Mother of tokhang victim petitions Netflix not to show ‘Amo’

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas  |  Apr 09, 2018 7:01 AM

    There’s a petition going around online addressed to Netflix to stop the April 9 showing of the TV series “Amo” about the brutal war against illegal drugs being waged by President Rodrigo Duterte.

    Amo, Brillante Mendoza, duterteantidrugs, Netflix, tokhang

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    Categories News

    House-to-house drug testing unlawful: CHR

    By Ellen Tordesillas  |  Aug 24, 2017 10:03 PM

    In a press statement, the CHR pointed out that house-to-house drug testing “runs contrary” to the Dangerous Drug Act of 2002.

    drug war, house-to-house drug test, tokhang

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    Categories Editor's Pick News

    Forensics, withheld evidence seen to bolster Tokhang survivor’s case

    By MARIA FEONA IMPERIAL  |  Mar 12, 2017 5:12 PM

    When police chief Ronald de la Rosa was once asked to explain before the Senate the deaths in the drug war, he had one reply: “They resisted arrest. Otherwise, they would have been alive.”

    drug war, Duterte, tokhang

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