{"id":21840,"date":"2018-11-10T16:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T16:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21840"},"modified":"2018-11-10T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T16:22:39","slug":"fear-and-killings-on-the-rise-in-dutertes-war-on-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21840","title":{"rendered":"Fear and killings on the rise in Duterte&#8217;s war on drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"64.3846153846\">\n<p>After two years of a violent &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/philippines.html\">Philippines<\/a>, thousands of people are dead and much of the population live in fear of the police.<\/p>\n<p>The policy has been personally driven by President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/06\/profile-duterte-helm-philippines-160629003943343.html\">Rodrigo Duterte<\/a>, who&#8217;s now facing prosecution at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/icc.html\">International Criminal Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Duterte&#8217;s term half over and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/categories\/human_rights.html\">human rights<\/a> groups continuing their investigations, some police are less willing to take part in the anti-drug campaign.<\/p>\n<p>But the families who have already lost loved ones just want a proper investigation into the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera\u2019s Jamela Alindogan has this report from Cebu, in the central Philippines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of a violent &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; in the Philippines, thousands of people are dead and much of the population live in fear of the police. The policy has been personally driven by President Rodrigo Duterte, who&#8217;s now facing prosecution at the International Criminal Court. With Duterte&#8217;s term half over and human rights&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}