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'Kill them': Key events on Duterte's war on drugs

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 16 06:49 PM

The authoritarian firebrand has defended the brutal crackdown that rights groups estimate has killed tens of thousands of people. Read more »

'We don’t care about impression' on drug war: Palace

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 16 06:21 PM

Officials "don’t care about impression", Malacañang said on Thursday, when asked if it would release records of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war. Read more »

'ICC probe ‘significant’ for victims of Davao killings'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 16 03:12 PM

The ICC's move to probe President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs and the Davao killings is a momentous occasion for the victims in the southern Philippine city. Read more »

ICC probe brings hope to kin of drug war victims

Gillan Ropero, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 16 03:28 PM

The International Criminal Court's (ICC) move to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte and his anti-narcotics campaign brings hope to the kin of victims of alleged extrajudicial killings, lawmakers, lawyers and rights advocates said Thursday. Read more »

Duterte, PDEA clear ex-adviser Yang of drug ties

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 14 04:20 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte and the anti-drug agency denied anew that his former adviser Michael Yang had ties to the narcotics trade. Read more »

Duterte sorry for deaths of 4 Chinese in drug bust

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 08 01:57 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte said he was sorry for the deaths of 4 Chinese in a drug bust. Read more »

Drug war victims ‘overwhelmingly support’ ICC probe

Mike Navallo, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 30 06:36 PM

An "overwhelming" number of drug war victims from the Philippines support the International Criminal Court’s potential probe into the drug war killings in the country, the ICC said Monday. Read more »

'Honest mistake': DILG sorry for order vs Isko Moreno

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Aug 06 09:48 PM

The Department of the Interior and Local Government on Friday denied any political motive in its show cause order against Manila Mayor Isko Moreno. Read more »

Duterte on drug war: I didn't know I was fighting my own govt

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 26 06:56 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte, who failed to deliver on his election promise of crushing illegal drugs in 3 to 6 months, said on Monday he "did not know that I was fighting my own government."    Read more »

Duterte says ICC can 'record' his threat vs drug peddlers: 'I will kill you'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 26 05:52 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he would "never" deny his kill threats against narcotics peddlers, which he said the International Criminal Court "can record", as it mounts a possible inquiry into alleged crimes against humanity in his drug war.  Read more »

Philippine drug war dead exhumed as grave leases expire

Allison Jackson, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 21 04:52 PM

MANILA - Rodzon Enriquez's skeletal remains are pulled out of a coffin-sized tomb in Manila and placed in a body bag. Five years after the 24-year-old was killed in the Philippines' drug war, the lease on his grave is expiring. Read more »

Duterte to bring 'sacks of cash' for 2022 polls? He means he'll raise funds for allies: spox

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 05:44 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte meant to say that he would raise funds for his allies in the 2022 elections, when he said over the weekend he would bring "sacks of cash," his spokesman said on Monday, following criticism of the remark.  Read more »

Duterte's VP bid to avoid cases 'perhaps opportunity to provoke jurisprudence': spox

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jul 19 04:45 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's possible candidacy for vice president in a bid to avoid cases, courts, and jail " is perhaps opportunity to provoke jurisprudence" or a legal system, his spokesman said on Monday.  Read more »

PDP-Laban to have just 'jeep full' of members if it ousts Duterte: Palace spokesman

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 14 04:01 PM

The PDP-Laban will be left with a "jeepney load" of members if it ousts its chairman President Rodrigo Duterte, his spokesman said on Wednesday, as a rift in the party festered over his plans to run at a lower post in the 2022 elections.  Read more »

Robredo score in pre-election survey 'respectable': spokesman

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 14 03:11 PM

Vice President Leni Robredo's ranking in a pre-election survey on the most preferred potential candidates for president is "respectable", given that she has "has paid no attention to the frantic positioning" for the 2022 elections, her spokesman said on Wednesday.  Read more »

Duterte 'recognizes' Cusi's PDP-Laban leadership, despite expulsion from party

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jul 12 05:52 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte "recognizes" Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi's leadership of the PDP-Laban, Malacañang said on Monday, despite the latter's expulsion from their political party following a fead with fellow stalwart Sen. Emmanuel Pacquiao.    Read more »

Duterte ponders play for power as political exit looms

Karen Lema, Reuters
Updated as of Jul 09 07:00 PM

MANILA (UPDATED) - President Rodrigo Duterte might be barred from a second term in office, but don't be surprised if he's still running the country after a presidential election next year. Read more »

A year before Duterte steps down, Palace says vows kept; activists await 'day of reckoning'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 30 02:11 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday marked the start of his last year as Chief Executive, with Malacañang saying that he delivered on his campaign promises, while activists looked forward to a "day of reckoning" for killings under his administration.    Read more »

As PNP faces another controversy, Palace repeats 'bad eggs' are 'exception rather than rule'

Jamaine Punzalan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 21 05:45 PM

"Bad eggs" in the Philippine National Police make up "the exception rather than the rule", Malacañang said on Monday, after some law enforcers killed an allegedly unarmed teenager during a drug war operation last week in Laguna. Read more »

Duterte remarks on drug war 'highly relevant' to show policy to kill: watchdog

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Jun 17 06:45 PM

President Rodrigo Duterte's previous remarks are highly relevant to show the alleged existence of a state policy on drug war killings, a global watchdog said Thursday. Read more »