Eve Tushnet
reports, with good historical background:
The Catholic church in the Philippines is operating a network that hides addicts and others targeted in president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody drug war, priests have told the Guardian.
More than 7,000 people have been killed by Philippine law enforcement officers and vigilantes in Duterte’s crusade against alleged addicts and dealers, often in hit-and-run style attacks by gunmen on motorcycles.
Victims are occasionally tipped off in advance that they are on a “kill list” and attempt to flee into hiding.
more (via Maia Szalavitz)
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