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Duterte Arrested: Was the Drug War a Cover Up?

2025/3/11
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Sean Williams: 杜特尔特的毒品战争导致了菲律宾社会的巨大创伤，尤其是在马尼拉，贫富差距在死后也体现得淋漓尽致。富人可以购买豪华的骨灰龛，而穷人则被埋葬在简陋的墓地中。毒品战争中的受害者往往因医疗条件差而死于并发症，社会对这些死亡事件逐渐麻木。一些宗教和法医专家正在重新调查这些案件，试图为受害者争取正义。杜特尔特本人及其家族与毒品贸易的关联也逐渐浮出水面，现任总统计划将其移交国际刑事法院，并弹劾其女儿。

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The episode begins at a cemetery in Manila, where the remains of victims of Duterte's drug war are exhumed. This highlights the human cost of the war and the ongoing efforts to seek justice for the victims.
  • Exhumation of drug war victims in Manila cemetery
  • Up to 30,000 lives lost in Duterte's drug war
  • Quiet reckoning on the drug war after Duterte's presidency
  • Information about Duterte's involvement in the drug trade trickling out

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Sean Williams reports from the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal drug war cost up to 30,000 lives and tore Philippine society to shreds. But was it all cover for his family’s own involvement in the drug trade? Reporting from Duterte’s stronghold of Davao, where he ran a decades-long death squad, and capital Manila, which bore the brunt of that bloody blueprint, we expose the genesis of the war — and its longtime link to Triads and other criminal groups. 

Duterte's connections to the drug trade have rarely been reported on in English and are just starting to make waves. This episode, backed by exclusive sources and firsthand accounts, challenges mainstream narratives and sheds new light on one of the most controversial anti-drug campaigns in modern history.

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