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IS JUST ARRESTED PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT DUTERTE A DRUGLORD?

2025/3/11
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Sean Williams: 菲律宾马尼拉的贫富差距在死后也体现得淋漓尽致。贫困的死者被埋葬在垃圾堆和野狗环绕的地方，而富人的骨灰则被安置在高耸的骨灰塔中。杜特尔特的毒品战争中，大多数受害者被埋葬在简陋的墓地，贫困的受害者无法获得优质的医疗资源，导致他们死于可预防的疾病。毒品战争中的受害者往往成为无声的统计数字，天主教神父和法医病理学家正在努力为这些受害者伸张正义，尽管菲律宾社会深受创伤，但仍有小规模的仪式在为受害者寻求正义。

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Exploring the grim reality of Manila's cemeteries where victims of Duterte's drug war are buried, and the ongoing efforts to exhume and investigate the deaths.
  • Manila's cemeteries reflect the stark economic divide, with the poor buried in shoddy niches.
  • Artemio Lumbre's death during the drug war highlights the impunity and lack of media attention.
  • Efforts are underway to exhume and investigate drug war victims' deaths for justice.

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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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