Police kill at least 60 in 3 days as Philippines' war on drugs and crime intensifies

This is what happens when you go all out and forget what was done to preserve the humanity over all those long two thousand years. Yes, the gangs and drug dealers will be purged from the society. Less crime associated with them. But the murderers portraying the president and a percent of police force will remain. People will remember the gunshots, all the blood shed by the government. The society will never get back on the civilized path without foreign help.

Killing, is not right over drugs.

It's like Pinochet all over again

Summary execution by the state with no due process. Makes all those tourist ads welcoming us to the Philippines look like a sick joke. Who in their right mind would go there with this maniac in charge.

Rampant killings, day time robberies , stabbing in the streets of MNL and most major cities in the PH have been goin on for decades BD ( Before Duterte) .

The difference nowadays is the fact that the police are going after the criminals who once rules the streets and alleys of the land.

The culture of crime is so deeply entrenched that it would probably take a dozen Duterte's to 'pacify' the archipelago.

If Japan had colonize the islands for centuries instead of Spain and the USA then the PH could have been a more disciplined, peaceful, progressive and prosperous country than Singapore and Taiwan and just like Tokyo.

Surely it's an unfortunate event that the two previous colonizers were both very bad influence to the Philippinos as proven by what is happening now.

It's bad luck for the people of the PH that Japan lost the war.

Hiro S Nobumasa

Hey man, I'm Japanese and that is some fairy tale you made up there.

And the Japanese legacy of instilling discipline is also there for all to see.

I often wonder how scary things would be if we won the war.

Burning Bush

Are you sure all 35 were "resisting arrest"? Of course you aren't.

It may be common in some of the worlds worst places according to you, but as someone who spent a year in Mexico, the police there arent from instructions to kill people.

If you don't resist arrest in the Philippines you won't be killed.

LOL, nope. There's some corrupt police there