Philippines: The Rest of the World Knows War on Drugs Doesn't Work
President Duterte is waging a hard-line just-kill-them-all war on drugs at a time when the rest of the world already knows the truth about such a strategy: It doesn’t work.
This was underscored just a few weeks before Duterte was elected.
As the Philippine election campaign was wrapping up in April, world leaders met at the United Nations to rethink the decades-old global war against drugs and drug abuse.
“A war that has been fought for more than 40 years has not been won, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos told the New York Times. “When you do something for 40 years and it doesn’t work, you need to change it.”
That view was echoed in a letter by political leaders from all over the world and even such celebrities as Sting and Mary J. Blige to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon.
“The drug control regime that emerged during the last century has proven...
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