It's Time To End US Military Aid to the Philippines - Antiwar.com Original
by Amee Chew Posted on April 10, 2019
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody “War on Drugs†has now claimed over 27,000 lives – almost all poor and indigent people, including children, summarily executed by police or vigilantes.
Over 140,000 pretrial detainees are being held in overcrowded Philippine prisons, many on trumped up drug charges; 75 percent of the total prison population still awaits their day in court, let alone conviction. On top of this, assassinations of human rights lawyers, journalists, labor and peasant organizers, indigenous leaders, clergy, teachers, and activists are spiraling out of control.
Duterte has systematically silenced voices of political dissent, jailing Senator Leila DeLima, an early drug war critic; ousting Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, who opposed the imposition of martial law in Mindanao; and now arresting Maria Ressa, internationally renowned journalist and executive editor of the indy outlet Rappler.
Read more at: https://original.antiwar.com/Amee_Chew/2019/04/09/its-time-to-end-us-military-aid-to-the-philippines/
Antiwar.com certainly conglomerates a number of good articles. Usually I don't agree with their point of view but that doesn't mean I always do.
Drug war on one side, Jihadists on the other, Mindanao mainly.
