OUR page 1 banner yesterday “5 more drug dealers dead” repelled some, cheered a lot. The story told of how policemen and special agents have killed 69 drug dealers since President Duterte won the presidency on May 9.
It’s really good news that drug dealers are being made to disappear from the face of this earth. It seems that all that the PNP officers and men needed was to hear tough talk against criminals from someone in the government, even only a city mayor President-elect, for them to go into action. The dark shadow on this good news is that human rights groups are raising the cry against abuses and vigilante killings—as if the policemen who had killed the drug dealers have committed extra-judicial executions. As far as reporters could tell, however, the drug dealers killed were wanted persons with long records.
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