
“The Filipino strongman took office earlier this year with a promise to unleash mass murder on Philippine drug users and dealers, and he has lived up to that vow, leaving the streets running with the blood of more than 5,000 killed so far, either directly by his police, or in a more shadowy fashion by ‘vigilantes.’ Duterte’s bloody campaign has drawn scathing criticism from human rights groups, the United Nations, and the Obama administration, with Duterte responding to the latter by calling Obama a ‘son of a whore.’ But in his phone call with the Filipino strongman, Donald Trump was singing a different tune.”
Read more: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/trump-gets-behind-philippines-drug-war-mass-murderer
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