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PHILIPPINES police resumed a “less bloody” crackdown on drugs yesterday.
President Rodrigo Duterte, who vowed during his election campaign to pardon himself at the end of his term for “multiple murders,” had twice paused the anti-drugs programme — in which officers visit the homes of suspected dealers and encourage them to reform — because of reported abuses by the police.
But he has restarted the visits, supposedly the friendlier prong in his anti-drugs programme, because the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency was not big enough to do the job.
Huge protests against corruption and preventable deaths during flooding have rocked the government — the masses are not likely to be able to take direct control in their own interests yet, writes KENNY COYLE, but it’s a promising show of people power
