Asia-Pacific: Duterte's drug war: violating rights for a quick fix

Gill Boehringer

doi:10.1177/1037969X17730700

Asia-Pacific: Duterte's drug war: violating rights for a quick fix

Gill Boehringer^*

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Macquarie Law School

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Abstract

Strongman President Duterte of the Philippines was elected on populist campaign promises that included modernisation and a war on drugs. Thousands of drug suspects have been killed without legal process in a campaign of illegal police or vigilante human rights violations that look like state terror. It is a short-term attempt to deal with symptoms, not the causes, of illegal drug usage - such as poverty, inequality and exclusive growth.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-236
Number of pages	4
Journal	Alternative Law Journal
Volume	42
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1037969X17730700
Publication status	Published - Sept 2017

Keywords

authoritarian populism
state terror
war on drugs
human rights

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