FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

IT is a crying shame when something good happens to a man and he fails to see it for what it is and misuses the opportunity altogether. This, I fear, could be what’s happening to President Rodrigo Duterte right now. Nineteen world leaders from Asia, Oceania, North America, Europe and the United Nations met in Manila earlier this month and in a gratuitous statesmanly gesture withheld any statement on the widely condemned drug killings. DU30 misread this as tacit approval of what they did not condemn. So, he has now decided to resume the police operations which had resulted in thousands of drug suspects killed, expressing dissatisfaction with the short period that the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) was in charge of the drug war and reported no killings.

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