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Post date April 24, 2024

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“They can just kill anyone.”

Since 2016, thousands have been killed in the Philippines’ war on drugs. The bloody campaign began under the Philippines’ last president, Rodrigo Duterte, who said he would be “happy to slaughter” three million drug addicts in the country. When current president Ferdinand Marcos Jr. took office in 2022, he promised to end this spree of state-sanctioned killings of alleged drug users and sellers, and focus on rehabilitation instead.

In today’s episode of The Sunday Story, NPR’s Emily Feng travels to the Philippines to see what has come of Marcos’ attempt to burnish the country’s international reputation and to put an end to what most people in the Philippines now refer to as EJKs, or “extrajudicial killings.” She found that the killings have continued. And she spoke to researchers, doctors, advocates, and victims’ families to try to understand why.

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