There have been three types of killings in the anti-drug war: vigilante killings, police killings, and collateral damage.
Vigilante killings are illegal and, therefore, cannot be classified as self-defense. As of August 18, close to 900 such killings have been reported. These widespread killings have been triggered and encouraged by Duterte’s call to slaughter.
Police killings have been largely extrajudicial although the police have gone to great pains to paint the victims as “aggressors†with cheap guns and drug packets planted beside the bodies of the victims. A dozen police (and military) personnel have been killed so far as against 756 drug personalities. The lowly figure of 1.5% in police deaths belies the myth of self-defense.
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