People who have not been in the Philippines and are saying things that they don't know are just plain ignorant. For you to even accuse me of being disgusting just proves how naive you are about me and my country.
It is disgusting to support an administration that lies about the statistics of drugs to justify their failing war on drugs that has also taken the lives of innocents from children to bystanders (which the government simply called as "collateral damage" [0]). How many times has our government lied to us about the statistics?
2015 - 1.8 Million Drug Users from a study by the Dangerous Drug Board [1]
2016 - Duterte claims that there are 3.7 Million Addicts in the country [2]
2016 - Months later, Duterte claims that there'd be 4 Million by the end of September [3]
2017 - On May, Philippine Drug Agency says there's now 4.7 Million Addicts [4]
2017 - On September, Foreign Affairs Secretary (and Duterte's VP running mate) hiked the number to 7 Million Drug Addicts at a UN Assembly [5]
Tell me, if his war on drugs is such a success, then why is the number of junkies growing?
The number is "growing" to give Duterte and his friends justification to ramp up and continue their mass murder campaign and allow them to continue convincing the brainwashed masses that they're in constant danger and need their "protection" from the evil drug zombie hordes.
It is disgusting to link sources from those Liberal Party leaning media outfit which we Filipinos know that are full of crap. Look for a journalist that is fair when writing news and I will acknowledge it.
You can find other references from both local and international media, even video recordings, if you think the links I posted aren't deserving of your attention.
You know we can read and hear Duterte's speeches for ourselves, right? Also, he's not unique, in either the Phillipines or the world. It's easy to compare him to Marcos or various other dictators that have engaged in brutal public order campaigns.
2015 - 1.8 Million Drug Users from a study by the Dangerous Drug Board [1]
2016 - Duterte claims that there are 3.7 Million Addicts in the country [2]
2016 - Months later, Duterte claims that there'd be 4 Million by the end of September [3]
2017 - On May, Philippine Drug Agency says there's now 4.7 Million Addicts [4]
2017 - On September, Foreign Affairs Secretary (and Duterte's VP running mate) hiked the number to 7 Million Drug Addicts at a UN Assembly [5]
Tell me, if his war on drugs is such a success, then why is the number of junkies growing?
sources:
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/17/duterte-says-c...
[1] https://www.rappler.com/nation/146654-drug-use-survey-result...
[2] http://news.abs-cbn.com/focus/07/25/16/read-transcript-of-pr...
[3] http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/09/23/1626648/duterte...
[4] http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/05/04/1696547/pdea-ph...
[5] http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/09/28/1743577/cayetan...