A president’s vow to fight drugs unleashed violence and fostered a culture of impunity. But the crimes are finally getting a look, including from the International Criminal Court.

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Dang, he only ran for president 8 years ago? It seems like an eternity ago that he was president.

This is so fucked:

When Mr. Duterte left office, his administration said 6,252 people had been killed by security forces — all described by officials as “drug suspects.” Rights groups say the overall death toll stands at roughly 30,000.

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The crazy thing is the right wing rhetoric in the Philippines was significant enough that a shocking number of people supported this. The number of boomer flips that have told me they want him to clean up the streets is appalling.

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Not only did they support this, they then elected the son of the ousted dictator.

They also did this despite the fact that people call him Bongbong.

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30K out of 115M people, that’s just small collateral damage to get rid of drugs from an entire country. Nobody does drugs there anymore.

/s just in case.

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What’s so fucked is that populists in other nations are touting him as a success story.

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Philippines lemmings, how is the dictator’s son doing as president? We got news of the election but basically nothing else since. Asking because America is collapsing

(I know there was already a hostile “antiterror” law passed so if that is preventing an honest answer just like include an emoji in your response)

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