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Eugene

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Sun Aug 7, 2016, 12:25 PM Aug 2016

Rodrigo Duterte links 150 judges and politicians to drugs trade

Source: The Guardian and agencies

Rodrigo Duterte links 150 judges and politicians to drugs trade

Philippine president fires police and military officers named
in nationally televised speech on Sunday


Staff and agencies
Sunday 7 August 2016 07.40 BST

The Philippine president has publicly linked more than 150 judges, mayors, lawmakers and military personnel to illegal drugs, revoked their gun licences and asked them to surrender for investigation.

Rodrigo Duterte promptly fired members of the military and police he named and ordered government security personnel to be withdrawn from politicians he identified in his nationally televised speech early Sunday.

Duterte’s latest move ratchets up his war against drugs, which has already left hundreds of suspected dealers dead and more than 4,400 arrested in a month since he took office. Nearly 600,000 people have surrendered to authorities.

Duterte says he will take full responsibility if any of those he named turn out to be innocent.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/07/rodrigo-duterte-links-150-judges-and-politicians-to-drugs-trade
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Rodrigo Duterte links 150 judges and politicians to drugs trade (Original Post) Eugene Aug 2016 OP
This seems horrendous. mahina Aug 2016 #1

mahina

(17,502 posts)
1. This seems horrendous.
Wed Aug 10, 2016, 08:19 PM
Aug 2016

I know it was a mess before but this guy really looks nuts to me.

What the heck? Can we carry on with biz per usual with a guy committing and/or encouraging extrajudicial mass murder and mass detainments?

And how does this situation look in the context of our weakened relations with Turkey on the other side of everything?

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