GROUP 4: DUTERTE’S

DRUG WAR

BRUTAL WAR
ON ILLEGAL
DRUGS

SUBMITTED TO:
SIR ALEXANDER S. PADILLA
LEADER: DANICA
DEOMAMPO
 MEMBERS:
 JAMES CARL SOBELINO
 JAN DAVE ALMANZOR
 JON MARWIN
LANDICHO
 MARC REYNIEL
TALADTAD
 FAMAE BALBACAL
 AUBREY BUNO
 JAZLYN GASAT
 MARY CRISH PESIGAN
 INTRODUCTION:
It has been three years since duterte became president of Philippines unleashed a brutal war on
drugs.illegal drugs is one of the biggest problem of the phillippines because it almost spread all over
the country.Every Filipino is affected because of this war,but we filpino’s can’t let our own land be
destroyed because we have indestructible dignity and strength just to fight for our rights and
freedom.So lets analyze my research about what is the truth behind Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly anti
drug policy that ruined everyone’s peace,rights and specially our life’s.

Since the “drug war” began on June 30, 2016 Duterte and his officials have publicly reviled,
humiliated and in instance,jailed human rights advocates.Senator Leila De Lima the president’s chief
critic, has been detained since February 2017 on politically motivated drug charges in apparent
retaliation for leading a senate inquiry into the drug war killings and, early on, opening
an investigation of the davao death squad in Davao City, where Duterte was mayor for more than 20
years. The Davao Death Squad (SSD) is a vigilant group supposedly active in davao city.The is
allegely responsible for summary execution of street children and individual’s suspected of petty
crimes and dealing with drugs in davao.It has been estimated that the group is responsible for the
killing or disappearance of between 1,020 and 1,040 people between 1998 and 2008.”President dutete
has not only resisted calls to end his brutal “drug war”,but has used populist rhetoric to disparage the
brave activities who has been investigating ang denouncing his cruel campaign” ,said Phelim Kine.
Phelim Kine is a deputy director in Human Rights Watch’s Asia Division. Kine worked as a journalist
for more than a decade in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Taiwan prior to joining Human Rights
Watch in April 2007. More than 12,000 suspected drug users and dealers, mostly from poor families
in urban centers across the country, are estimated to have died in the “drug war,” including an
estimated 4,000 during operations led by the police and the remainder by “unidentified gunmen.”

In August, Duterte encouraged police attacks against human rights groups and
advocates,instructing police to shoot them “if they are obstructing justice”.Duterte has publicly
condemnd the official Commision on Human Rights even threatening to abolish constitutionally
mandidated body.He also repeatedly subjected the United nations (UN) special reporter on extra
judicial killings , Agnes Callamard, to profanitylaced ridicule for her repeated efforts to secure an
official visit to the Philippines.Duterte’s spokesman, Harry Roque,has accused the UN of ‘bullying”
the Philippines about extra judicial killings.Harry roque was requested by President Rodrigo duterte
himself to serve as the latters spokesperson and on October 27,2017,roque was appointed presidential
spokesperson replacing Ernesto abella.On November 22, 2017,he was designated presidential adviser
for human rights concurrent with being the presidential spokesperson. In October, Duterte responded
to public outcry over the killings particularly of children by taking the Philippine National
Police(PNP) out of the anti-drug operations. The killings declined but did not stop, and the president
has said he would reinstate the police in the campaign. A human right’s watch found that police and
their agents have repeatedly carried out extrajudicial killings of drug suspects, and then falsely
claimed self-defense. The police claim that several police officers implicated in these killings have
been dismissed from service and are under investigation but not one has been brought to jail.
 The "Philippine Drug War" refers to the drug policy of the Philippine government under
President Rodrigo Duterte. The operational procedure in the implementation of this policy, named
Oplan Double Barrel (or Operation Double Barrel).The policy has been widely criticized locally and
internationally for the number of deaths resulting from police operations and allegations of
systematic extrajudicial execution. The policy is supported by the majority of the local population, as
well as by leaders or representatives of certain countries such as China, Japan and the United States.
The Philippine National Police claimed the deaths passed 7,000 in January 2017, the last death total
they published. The government claimed 4,200 have been killed as of April 30, 2018. In February
2018, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague announced a "preliminary examination"
into killings linked to the Philippine government's "war on drugs" since at least July 1, 2016.
Philippine anti-narcotic officials have admitted that Duterte uses flawed and exaggerated data to
support his claim that the Philippines is becoming a "narco-state". Duterte said in his state of the
nation address that data from the philippinr drug enforcement agency shows that there were 3 million
drug addicts 2 to 3 years ago, which he said may have increased to 3.7 million. However, according to
the Philippine Dangerous Drugs Board, the government drug policy-making body, 1.8 million
Filipinos used illegal drugs (mostly marijuana ) in 2015, the latest official survey published; a third of
them had used illegal drugs only once in the past 13 months.

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is the lead anti-drug law enforcement
agency, responsible for preventing, investigating and combating any dangerous
drugs,controlled precursors and essential chemicals within the Philippines. The agency is tasked with
the enforcement of the penal and regulatory provisions of Republic Act No. 9165 (R.A. 9165),
otherwise known as the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

In speeches made after his inaugraution june 30 Duterte urged citizens to kill suspected criminals and
drug addicts. He said he would order police to adopt a shoot to kill policy, and would offer them a
bounty for dead suspects. On July 2, 2016, the communist party of philippines stated that it "reiterates
its standing order for the NPA to carry out operations to disarm and arrest the chieftains of the
biggest drug syndicates, as well as other criminal syndicates involved in human rights violations and
destruction of the environment" after its political wing bagong alyansang makabayan accepted
Cabinet posts in the new government.

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan  "New Patriotic Alliance") or Bayan is an alliance

of leftwing Philippine organizations. It was founded on International Workers' Day,, May 1, 1985 as
part of the opposition during the Marcos dictatorship. On July 3, 2016, the Philippine national
police announced they had killed 30 alleged drug dealers since Duterte was sworn in as president on
June 30. The Philippine National Police is the armed, civilian national police force in
the Philippines. Its national headquarters is at Camp Crame in Quezon City, Metro Manila and it has
170,000 personnel.

It is administered and controlled by the National Police Commission and is part of the Department
of the Interior and Local Government(DILG). Local Police officers are operationally controlled by
municipal mayors (except during the 30 days immediately preceding and following any national ,
local and barangay elections. During these periods, the local police forces are under the supervision
and control of the Commission on Elections). DILG, on the other hand, organizes, trains and equips
the PNP for the performance of police functions as a police force that is national in scope and civilian
in character. They later stated they had killed 103 suspects between May 10 and July 7.

On July 9, 2016, a spokesperson of the president told critics to show proof that there have been
human rights violation in the Drug War. Human rights advocates agree that, sixty years after its
issue, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still more a dream than reality.ollaborate with
police in the Drug War. Violations exist in every part of the world. For example, Amnesty
International’s 2009 World Report and other sources show that individuals are:

 Tortured or abused in at least 81 countries

 Face unfair trials in at least 54 countries
 Restricted in their freedom of expression in at least 77 countries


Not only that, but women and children in particular are marginalized in numerous ways, the press is
not free in many countries, and dissenters are silenced, too often permanently. While some gains have
been made over the course of the last six decades, human rights violations still plague the world
today.

To help inform you of the true situation throughout the world, this section provides examples of
violations of six Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR):

“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”

An estimated 6,500 people were killed in 2007 in armed conflict in Afghanistan—nearly half being
noncombatant civilian deaths at the hands of insurgents. Hundreds of civilians were also killed in
suicide attacks by armed groups.

In Brazil in 2007, according to official figures, police killed at least 1,260 individuals—the highest
total to date. All incidents were officially labeled “acts of resistance” and received little or no
investigation.

In Uganda, 1,500 people die each week in the internally displaced person camps. According to the
World Health Organization, 500,000 have died in these camps.

Vietnamese authorities forced at least 75,000 drug addicts and prostitutes into 71 overpopulated
“rehab” camps, labeling the detainees at “high risk” of contracting HIV/AIDS but providing no
treatment. Later that day, the moro Islamic liberation front announced it was open to collaborate with
police in the Drug War. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is a group based
in Mindanao, Philippines seeking an autonomous region of the Moro people from the central
government. The group has a presence in the Bangsamoro region of Mindanao, the Sulu
Archipelago, Palawan, Basilan, and other neighbouring islands.

The armed wing of the group is the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) although the
name of the parent organization is often used to refer to BIAF.
The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), also known as the Bangsamoro Islamic
Freedom Movement, is an Islamist militant organization based in Mindanao, the Philippines. It is a
smaller player in the overall Moro insurgency in the Philippines and is mostly active
in Maguindanao and other places in central Mindanao. It is a breakaway group from the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front founded by Amiril Umbra Kato. Following Kato's death, the group split into three
factions, one of which has aligned with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), while the other
two are less radical.

Amiril Umbra Kato (18 May 1946 – 14 April 2015) was the founder of the Bangsamoro Islamic
Freedom Fighters (BIFF), a group which seceded from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). He
joined the MILF after 1985, after he graduated from Imam Muhammad bin Saud
IslamiUniversity in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Umbra Kato was the Philippines' most wanted man though
due to his still official membership in the MILF he was not hunted by the military. However a warrant
of arrest was filed against him together with other BIFF members by the Philippine National
Police.The Armed Forces of the Philippines, with the MILF, launched Operation Darkhorse in a bid to
arrest him in January 2014.

Kato reportedly died on 14 April 2015 of a heart attack. BIFF spokesperson Abu Misry Mama
confirmed his death after he was informed by Kato's son that he died at 2:00 am due to complications
from pneumonia. He was reported to have died in Barangay Kateman
in Guindulungan, Maguindanao, but this was denied by the barangay chairman. On August 3, 2016,
Duterte said that the sinoloa carter and the Chinese triad are involved in the Philippine drug trade. A
presidential spokesperson said that Duterte welcomed a proposed Congressional investigation into
extrajudicial killings to be chaired by Senator Leila de lima, his chief critic in the government. On
August 7, 2016, Duterte named more than 150 drug suspects including local politicians, police,
judges, and military. On August 8, 2016 the united states expressed concerns over the extrajudicial
killings. The Sinaloa Cartel (Spanish: Cártel de Sinaloa) is an international drug trafficking, money
laundering, and organized crime syndicate. Established during the mid-1980s, the Sinaloa Cartel is
based primarily in the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa with operations in the Mexican states of Baja
California, Durango, Sonora, and Chihuahua. The cartel is also known as the Guzmán-Loera
Organization and the Pacific Cartel, the latter due to the coast of Mexico from which it originated.
The cartel has also been called the Federation and the Blood Alliance.

The 'Federation' was partially splintered when the Beltrán-Leyva brothers broke apart from the
Sinaloa Cartel. On August 17, 2016, Duterte announced that de Lima had been having an affair with a
married man, her driver, Ronnie Palisoc Dayan. Duterte claimed that Dayan was her collector for drug
money, who had also himself been using drugs In a news conference on August 21, 2016, Duterte
announced that he had in his possession writetaps and ATM records which confirmed his allegations.
He stated: "What is really crucial here is that because of her [romantic] relationship with her driver
which I termed 'immoral' because the driver has a family and wife, that connection gave rise to the
corruption of what was happening inside the national penitentiary. On Aug. 17, President Duterte
linked Sen. Leila de Lima to the illegal drug trade when he claimed that the senator’s driver, who was
also her “lover,” collected drug payoffs for her when she was justice secretary.
Without naming the senator and the driver, the President called her an “immoral woman” whose drug
money funded the house of her lover.
This was five days before the Senate committee on justice and human rights, then chaired by De
Lima, was set to start an inquiry into Mr. Duterte’s bloody war on illegal drugs. On August 18,
2016, united nations human rights experts called on the Philippines to halt extrajudicial killings.agnes
callamar the UN Special Rapporteur on summary executions, stated that Duterte had given a "license
to kill" to his citizens by encouraging them to kill.

Agnès Callamard is the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions at

the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). She is also the
Director of Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression project. On August 17, Kian Loyd
delos Santos, a 17-year-old Grade 11 student, was shot dead in an antidrug operation in Caloocan
CCTV footage appeared to show Kian being dragged by two policemen. Police say they killed him in
self-defense, and retrieved a gun and two packets of methamphetami] Delos Santos was the son of
an overseas Filipino worker a key demographic in support of Duterte.] The teenager's death caused
condemnation by senators] His funeral on August 25, attended by more than a thousand people, was
one of the largest protests to date against the Drug War. Carl Angelo Arnaiz, a 19-year-old teenager,
last found in Cainta, Rizal, was tortured and shot dead also on August 17 (the same date Kian delos
Santos was killed) by police after robbing a taxi in Caloocan. His 14-year-old friend, Reynaldo de
Guzman, also called under the nickname "Kulot", was stabbed to death thirty times and thrown into a
creek in gapan, Nueva Ecija. Along with the deaths of Kian delos Santos, the deaths of the two
teenagers also triggered public outrage and condemnation.Human Rights Watch repeated their call for
a UN investigation. HRW Asia director Phelim Kine commented: "The apparent willingness of
Philippine police to deliberately target children for execution marks an appalling new level of
depravity in this so-called drug war” Duterte called the deaths of Arnaiz and de Guzman (the former
being a relative of the President on his mother's side) a "sabotage", believing that some groups are
using the Philippine National Police to destroy the president's public image. Presidential spokesman
Abella said "It should not come as a surprise that these malignant elements would conspire to
sabotage the president’s campaign to rid the Philippines of illegal drugs and criminality", which "may
include creating scenarios stoking public anger against the government".

On August 23, 2016, a 5-year-old student named Danica May Garcia was killed by a stray bullet
coming from the unidentified gunmen in dagupan city pangasinan during an anti-drug operation
Aother minor, 4-year old Skyler Abatayo of Cebu was killed through an 'anti-drug operation'. Duterte
insisted that the child was killed by drug suspects, not by his police force. In a speech
before asean representatives, Rodrigo Duterte tried to refute all extrajudicial killings related to the
War on Drugs by stating that these stories only serve as a political agenda in order to demonize him.
He stated that he has only used his mouth to tell drug users that they will be killed. He stated that
"..."shabu" (crystal meth) users have shrunken brains, which is why they have become violent and
aggressive, leading to their deaths." Duterte further added that all the drug pushers and their
henchmen always carry their guns with them and killing them is justifiable so that they would not
endanger the lives of his men.[ Duterte appointed a human rights lawyer harry roque, a Kabayan
partylist representative, as his spokesperson. Roque stated that he will change public perception by
reducing the impact of the statements by which Duterte advocates extra-judicial killings in his war on
drugs.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday vowed to sustain the momentum of his bloody
war on drugs, telling the nation in an annual address that the fight would be as "relentless and
chilling" as during his first two years in power.

Duterte told a joint session of Congress the anti-narcotics campaign, which has earned him
international notoriety, was "far from over", taking a swipe at activists and political opponents who
seek to bring him to book for thousands of killings.

"Your concern is human rights, mine is human lives" he said, adding that his fierce campaign aimed
to protect the public from illicit drugs, as the "lives of our youth are being wasted" and families
destroyed.
 Since Duterte came to power, police have killed more than 4,500 people they say were suspected
drug pushers who resisted arrest. Police say several thousand other deaths are believed to be drug
related, and at the hands of vigilantes or rival gang members.

Human rights groups alarmed by the bloodshed say many of the killings were summary
executions by police who were systematically exterminating drug users in the poorest communities.
Police vigorously rebut those allegations.

Duterte reiterated that his foreign policy would not ally with any one power, but that ties with
historic foe China had been "re-energized", bringing unprecedented cooperation in the battle on
transnational crime and dismantling clandestine drug laboratories.

But those warmer relations would not come at the expense of the Philippines' territorial integrity
and economic interests in the South China Sea, he added.

Duterte read his prepared 50-minute speech in full, unlike his two previous addresses, when he
eventually ditched his script to improvise and ramble.

He asked Congress to pass a law to give proper labor contracts to millions of people in short-term
employment, to protect the environment and grant the Muslim minority the right to self-rule.

Thousands of women, students, left-wing activists, and church-based groups gathered outside
Congress to denounce what they said were Duterte's anti-poor policies and widespread human rights
abuses.

Duterte was also successful at negotiating with the Philippine Communist Party. He was
seen broadly as sympathetic to their concerns about poverty, inequality, and h ousing, and
pursued a reasonably robust anti-poverty agenda while he was mayor. He was also interested
in public health issues, launching the first legislation against public smoking in the
Philippines, which he has claimed he will launch nationally.