But you don't challenge the facts.Original Post Deleted
Have the UN or Amnesty been here? Have either of them asked the government any questions? Not as far as I am aware. The UN will have NGOs on the ground for sure, like RINJ who published a warning that a form of martial law had been declared and police had been given unlimited powers which would lead to more rapes. Do you believe that was true as well?
If you believe journalists then that is up to you.
Which proves the point of unreliable crimes statistics gathering. People are guessing and pulling the statistics out of their arse, a known problem with The Philippines is the inconsistent and missing data, lacking national oversight. You simply can't get accurate figures from the past unless you look to the NGOs and the UN's best guesses, and certainly won't now.
Next.
I will ask Amnesty tomorrow
I bump into them in the coffee shop pretty often and know they have been actively collecting information on the ground about abuses of power in the Philippines for years. I see no reason why that would of stopped. They are a very well funded organisation and although they roll up to their office later than most they still are reasonably credible for a Pan-National NGO.
their latest report on the current major abuses below
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Doc...016ENGLISH.pdf
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Here is a video from tonight of Duterte speaking to the Jewish community (quality is crap at the beginning but gets better). His wife is Jewish btw. Spend thirty minutes getting to know the man. Up to you of course.
Be interesting to see how, and even if, this is reported.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZbUm7tmrk
WIll try to watch all later but he seems very at ease with the concept of extra-judicial killing as a way to solve drug issues which will in turn solve societies issues.
The use of drugs are surely an effect and a cause of the problems in society. People turn to drugs for various reasons. Easy access to drugs is obviously a contributory factor. Blaming society's evils on drugs is just a kop out but one that the great unwashed can get behind and cheer him along.
It is much harder to sort out the ills of society rather than building up and then killing a few 'baddies'. It still all feels very wrong but granted very populist (and popular). Mariah Carey was the most popular singer of the 90's but it doesn't make it right.