"They are a thousand dead drug dealers, where they worry about?" President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines was the international intervention on the activities of death squads in his country. "Let the police do their duty."
Duterte is only two months in power and since then almost every morning dead "drug dealers" found on the street. Sometimes the dead have a message to their necks like a cardboard sign with the words "I am a dealer.
Some of them are killed by death squads: masked, armed men overnight sent a list path.
"Agents who work '
"Nobody knows who they are," says NIS correspondent Michel Maas. "Probably the agents' a bit of work" in their spare time. " They work on a hit list drawn up by the police. Along with close heads made a list of whom is suspected of drug crime.
"If you then state, you do not make your life more confident," says Maas. The suspects are day and night monitored. They are lured away with an excuse and slain with knives or guns.
"There are mothers who have lost their sons in this way. Without that they once again have a chance to prove their innocence," says Maas.
Poor wretches
Estimated to have been killed a thousand people who were linked to drug trafficking. Maas'. Also, drug users, poor creatures who need help right people from the slums can escape only in the drugs. "
The country with 100 million inhabitants has been struggling for years with poverty and corruption. Thus, the drug problem is big. The dealers and merchants are a scourge of the Philippine population. That explains the popularity of the hardliner Duterte.
"He kicks all the sacred cows over and never stops. It takes great people," says Maas."They see that Duterte means what he says and corruption and drug problems tackling hard."
Duterte had previously promised a fierce fight against drug criminals. "You bastards, I'll kill you," he said on television against them. "If suspects resist, shoot them dead and get a medal ."
The prisons are so full that they release pickpockets to make way for drug dealers.
Correspondent Michel MaasThe tough approach comes Duterte to be strongly criticized. Human rights organizations and the United Nations to condemn the killings. Students protest and also the Catholic Church condemns the bloody drug war.
"We now change a country of drug users into a nation of murderers", an influential Filipino bishop wondered on Twitter.
The bloodshed has overcrowded prisons result. Since the death squads into action, have reported more than 125,000 people in the police: all accused of drug offenses who are afraid to die.
"The prisons are so full that they release pickpockets to make way for dealers," says Maas.There are prisons with capacity for 800 people where now stuck 4,000 people. "Every hall is at full evening with sleeping prisoners."
"Stop corruption"
However, the support for the Philippine president has remained stable. "Most Philippines hope Duterte insists. Then, an end to corruption, they hope."
Duterte has published lists showing politicians, generals and senior officials suspected of corruption or complicity in trafficking. "He has already said previously, if the entire parliament is against me, I will raise it up."
By: NOS Editors: Photo: EPA
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