Philippine drug war sees 'bloodiest night' of deaths

Date: August 16. 2017

Source: BBC

In Philippines the drug war happened to have the bloodiest night. From the August 16^th midnight to the midnight of August 16^th it occur the killing of 32 people by the police in the streets of the Bulcan province (north of Manila).

The officials claim that the murdered ones were only because they resisted, if they don’t fight over the police officers they would have been arrested. Which even the death rate it’s the higher one, since the drug war was settled in 2016, it’s also true that the arresting ratio it’s higher than usual, the police having more than 100 drug users taken into custody.

Even though the comparison between both data (number of deaths and arrests) make somehow sense it’s also true that it’s having a lot of international criticism due the huge amount of deaths.

In the article we can also see the different point of view, according the controversial policy that the President Rodrigo Duterte established a year ago, of two different people that had a very different experience with the policy, one being the mother of one of the murdered by the police when he wasn’t even a dealer but also had his use of marijuana declared, and the other one being a taxi driver and constantly hearing the increasing safety in the streets due the drug war.

I decided to choose this article as I never heard before about the ‘drug war’ and I was surprised by it. Also, what shocked me the most of the article were the different opinions that both had owing to their experiences, which it’s reasonable as we never get to experience exactly the same as others.

LINK: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40944888