Drug war killings continue from Duterte to Marcos – watchdogs

Sister of an extra-judicial killing victim wears a sash with a call to stop the killings in the administration’s drug war. File photo / INQUIRER.net

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — Ten years after former President Rodrigo Duterte waged an all-out war on drugs that killed thousands, the extrajudicial killings continued under the watch of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Mindanao leaders and other institutional watchdogs said.

Duterte’s war on drugs, carried out under Oplan Tokhang, was launched in 2016 when he assumed the presidency. TokHang is coined from the Visayan words toktok (knock) and hangyo (plead).

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