Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez of Davao del Norte has called on his fellow lawmakers in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to support the Duterte administration’s anti-drug war—a policy that has left at least 7,000 suspected drug personalities either dead without charges or trial.

In his welcome remarks at the Asean’s Inter-parliamentary Assembly (AIPA) Fact Finding Committee to Combat the Drug Menace at the Conrad Hotel in Pasay on Wednesday, Alvarez said that drug trafficking has remained a major security concern in Southeast Asia, and that the region has become a major transhipment hub for illegal drugs amid an increasingly growing international market.

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