TRIGGER WARNING: Drug war, state violence

CITIZEN’S ARM: In 2016, former President Rodrigo Duterte formally waged war against drugs throughout the nation, subjugating whom the government declares as ‘addicts,’ to a point where innocent people became victims, too. As the ICC probes into the inner workings of this ‘war on drugs,’ what are we to make of the previous and incumbent government’s use of state sovereignty on the matter at hand?

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by Pietrov