The President of the Philippines has admitted to personally tracking down and killing criminal suspects, in his former job as a city mayor.
Rodrigo Duterte said he used to patrol the streets of Davao on a motorbike looking for trouble, where he led a crackdown on crime over two decades.
He's now being accused of human rights violations in his relentless and bloody war on drugs, which has seen around 6,000 people killed in the less than six months.
Sky News has travelled to the Filippino capital Manila, where families caught up in the killings have urged President Duterte to stop the bloodshed.
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It wouldn’t surprise me if Deterte ends up like former Liberian president
Samuel Doe.
Hitler II?
We are still happy with Dutertes War on Drugs – do not make poverty as an
excuse for selling drugs. There were so many killings before Duterte came
into power. At least now petty crimes and rape rate decreased which is
rampant in the last 10 years. Now the drug addicts are scared and the value
of drugs increased 5x…
Prohibition in the USA is setting a bad example for other countries. They
still remember the golden years of the war on drugs during the Reagan
administration; all the action movies and TV shows that lauded it as a
noble cause.