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Nov 5, 2016

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Drug addiction not a medical problem?

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte shuns the idea that drug addiction is a medical condition with a cure. For him, drug users are the “living walking dead” whose brains have already shrunk, and who have become useless to society. On Oct. 27, in his arrival speech from Japan, Duterte said: STATEMENT: “Eh sabi nila, (drug addiction is)

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Drug addiction not a medical problem?
Sep 17, 2016

VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No shoot-to-kill order from Duterte?

PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte never issued a “shoot-to-kill” order against drug suspects, according to the Philippines’ permanent representative to the United Nations (UN) on Sept 14. In a statement issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Cecilia Rebong, during the 33rd Session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, said what the president meant was the police have

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: No shoot-to-kill order from Duterte?