Sri Lanka to begin hanging drug dealers to 'replicate success of Philippines'
Source: The Guardian
Sri Lanka will begin hanging drug dealers, ending a near-half-century moratorium on executions, as officials promised explicitly to replicate the success of the Philippines grisly war on drugs.
Sri Lankas decision to cite the Philippines as its model is certain to draw criticism. Under president Rodrigo Duterte 4,200 drug suspects have been killed in the Philippines, although rights groups say the true number could be at least triple that figure.
Senaratne said there were 19 drug offenders whose death sentences had been commuted to life. Local media reports quote Senaratne as saying that they would now face execution.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/11/sri-lanka-to-begin-hanging-drug-dealers-to-replicate-success-of-philippines
sandensea
(21,677 posts)Wage war on opponents, and call it a war 'on drugs'.
Starting off by executing actual drug dealers convinces the public it's "for the best" - and the rest is the easy part.
lark
(23,166 posts)This would be both drumpf's and evil efs wet dream, killing drug "dealers" who would probably be users and brown or black, just by conincidence, of course.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Far cry from mobs going around hanging folks....I heard he applied to work at mara Lago via that fax machine though. (taking jobs Americans WON'T do."
****Open to Call Center.
"911 Sri Lanka...What's your Emergency??"
"Well...my neighbor...who's herd of feral cats that poops in my garden....deals drugs."
"We'll be right over "
****Scene.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,374 posts)... in which case the arresting officers are generally in fear for their lives, therefore justified in filling you with many bullets.
Trial? We don' need no stinkin' trial.
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)just trialed ya...and wow...these new guns are accurate.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)executives?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)we have to be aware that bad ideas spread, especially the myth of "law and Order" types.
TheFrenchRazor
(2,116 posts)police states to terrorize and incarcerate the "undesirables." not to mention enriching themselves and their cronies.