From 2016 to 2022, government figures say a crackdown on drugs and gang violence resulted in just over 6,000 deaths, mostly at the hands of police and security officials, though human rights groups say the real number could be as high as 30,000.
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MANILA, Philippines – A Filipino priest and fierce critic of the country’s former President Rodrigo Duterte recently said he was accepting an award known as the Nobel Prize of Asia in honor of all victims of injustice, especially those who died as part of a widespread campaign of extra-judicial killings during the tumultuous Duterte regime.
From 2016 to 2022, government figures say a crackdown on drugs and gang violence in the Philippines launched by Duterte resulted in just over 6,000 deaths outside the judicial process, mostly at the hands of police and security officials, though human rights groups say the real number of such killings could be as high as 30,000.
