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We know about the thousands of alleged drug users and small time pushers who have been killed/murdered in the Phillipines. I was reminded of this today when I heard a story from someone who has close connections in the Phillipines.
Apparently there is a neat little line in outsourcing the murder of alleged druggies. If you rock up to a police station you can get a motor bike, a gun and a list of names. Some have asterisks. These are the preferred targets. (I wonder how easy it is to get a particualr name on the hit list ?)
So off you go. Gun down a name on the list. Return the bike and gun and score $100.
Simple isn't it? Police organised hitman for only $100.
This prompted me to have a look for other stories on the mass murders of alleged druggies in the Phillipines. This one appears to sum it up
Good Shots
Police rack up an almost perfectly deadly record in Philippine drug war
MANILA – Norberto Maderal and George Avanceña made a fatal choice on the afternoon of October 19, the Philippine police say. The two pedicab drivers drew their guns in a slum in northern Manila and “tried to open fire” at plainclothes officers posing as drug buyers, according to the police report into their killings.
The officers defended themselves, resulting in what the report called “the instantaneous death of the suspects.” Dante Novicio, the police chief of Navotas City, told Reuters his men shot the pair “almost simultaneously.”
Maderal, 42, and Avanceña, 33, are casualties in President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.” Police say that 2,004 people have been shot and killed by officers in self-defense during anti-drug operations since the president took office on July 1.
When the police open fire in Duterte’s war, the suspects almost always die.
Reuters reviewed 42 drug-related shooting incidents involving the police in the Manila region covered by its journalists, as well as another 9 cases investigated in the same area by the government-funded Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR). In these combined 51 cases, police officers killed a total of 100 suspects and wounded just three. Of the three people who were shot but survived in these cases, two played dead and the third was arrested as he tried to flee the scene.
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http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/philippines-duterte-police/
So the question remains ? Could Donald Trump take a leaf from Dutertes book and instigate a similar free for all in the US ?
Should it happen?
Apparently there is a neat little line in outsourcing the murder of alleged druggies. If you rock up to a police station you can get a motor bike, a gun and a list of names. Some have asterisks. These are the preferred targets. (I wonder how easy it is to get a particualr name on the hit list ?)
So off you go. Gun down a name on the list. Return the bike and gun and score $100.
Simple isn't it? Police organised hitman for only $100.
This prompted me to have a look for other stories on the mass murders of alleged druggies in the Phillipines. This one appears to sum it up
Good Shots
Police rack up an almost perfectly deadly record in Philippine drug war
- By Clare Baldwin, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Damir Sagolj
- Filed Dec. 5, 2016, 2:42 p.m. GMT
MANILA – Norberto Maderal and George Avanceña made a fatal choice on the afternoon of October 19, the Philippine police say. The two pedicab drivers drew their guns in a slum in northern Manila and “tried to open fire” at plainclothes officers posing as drug buyers, according to the police report into their killings.
The officers defended themselves, resulting in what the report called “the instantaneous death of the suspects.” Dante Novicio, the police chief of Navotas City, told Reuters his men shot the pair “almost simultaneously.”
Maderal, 42, and Avanceña, 33, are casualties in President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs.” Police say that 2,004 people have been shot and killed by officers in self-defense during anti-drug operations since the president took office on July 1.
When the police open fire in Duterte’s war, the suspects almost always die.
Reuters reviewed 42 drug-related shooting incidents involving the police in the Manila region covered by its journalists, as well as another 9 cases investigated in the same area by the government-funded Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR). In these combined 51 cases, police officers killed a total of 100 suspects and wounded just three. Of the three people who were shot but survived in these cases, two played dead and the third was arrested as he tried to flee the scene.
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Video: ‘He didn’t have a gun’ -
The president’s office responds to the Reuters investigation -
Burying the Truth: A family challenges the official story -
Earlier: President Duterte’s dodgy data
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/philippines-duterte-police/
So the question remains ? Could Donald Trump take a leaf from Dutertes book and instigate a similar free for all in the US ?
Should it happen?