Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims
He died from a bullet to the back of the head and two in the chest. A watchlist of alleged drug users and dealers kept by local officials identified the dead man as “De Juan, Constantino, a.k.a. Juan”, 37, and a drug “pusher”. The police said that he was killed in a drug buy-bust operation at 9:05 a.m. on Dec. 6, 2016, in Manila, and that they fired at him because he pulled out a gun.
According to the Philippine government, at least 6,252 people were killed in such encounters with the police during the drug war launched by Rodrigo Duterte, who was president from 2016 to 2022.… Seguir leyendo »