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Cash for drugs, drug kills:How will Duterte pay up?
THERE’S OBVIOUSLY big money in the illegal-drug trade, so much so that it has made criminals even out of some members of the police force – a fact that authorities themselves have…
By Malou Mangahas·September 20, 2016
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War on drugs: No EO signed by DU30, a chaos of numbers
MORE THAN 20 years ago, Davao City was turned into the laboratory for its then Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte’s war against illegal drugs. Now that he is President, Duterte has mounted a…
By Malou Mangahas·September 19, 2016
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Budget bill for public order: P206.57B
EVEN PEACE and order come with a price tag, and next year ours may cost us P206.57 billion. Yet as hefty as that may look, it actually translates to just six percent of the total…
By Karol Ilagan·September 19, 2016
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Duterte’s war of words
HE RANTS and rails against the drug menace nearly every day, and sometimes, morning, noon, and night time, but always only in press conferences of public events.
By Adminnewspack·September 19, 2016
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Rights body mounts testy probeof 103 drug killings and counting
ON TOP of Bayani Arago’s desk at the Commission on Human Rights National Capital Region (CHR NCR) is a pile of clippings now about an inch thick. The news reports, which Arago…
By Karol Ilagan·July 26, 2016
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SONA sa Lansangan
Libu-libong manggagawa, mangingisda, magsasaka, katutubo, estudyante, guro, at iba pang sektor ng lipunan ang nakilahok sa pagkilos para sa unang State of the Nation Address (SONA)…
By Jil Danielle Caro·July 26, 2016
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Big kill of small fry, punydrugs haul, defies PNP rules
BANGKAY SA BANGKETA… kasi nga drug pusher ako. This is the sad refrain in a sardonic poem that a young Filipina wrote and read in a video she posted last week on her Facebook page…
By Vino Lucero·July 25, 2016
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Seized by cops, too: Shabu, Ecstasy,acetone, chloroform, muriatic acid
BEFORE Rodrigo R. Duterte became President on June 30, 2016, the Philippine National Police (PNP) had hauled a fairly bountiful harvest from its anti-drug war from January 2010 to…
By Vino Lucero·July 25, 2016
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Alamin ang ating mga karapatan!Know, defend, assert our rights!
ANUMAN ANG SITWASYON, NANANATILING LUBOS AT HINDI DAPAT YURAKAN ANG ATING MGA BATAYANG KARAPATAN.
By Free Legal Assistance Group Flag·July 19, 2016
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In 2 weeks: 135 killed, 1,844 arrested,66K ‘surrenderees’, 43K homes ‘visited’
BY OFFICIAL POLICE DATA, from July 1 to 13 this year, the Duterte administration’s war on crime has already chalked up big, if macabre, numbers: 135 persons killed or about 10…
By Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism Pcij·July 14, 2016
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In 9 wks, drug war tally: 192 killed,8,110 arrested, 35K ‘surrendered’
THE WAR on drugs in the last nine weeks — or even before Rodrigo R. Duterte took his oath as president a fortnight ago on June 30 — has yielded ever bigger numbers of casualties…
By Philippine Center For Investigative Journalism Pcij·July 14, 2016
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President Duterte’s war on crime:A nuclear explosion of violence
National Chairman, Free Legal Assistance Group Trustee, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism ———————————————————————————————————- PRESIDENT DUTERTE’S war on crime has…
By Atty Jose Manuel I Diokno·July 8, 2016
