By the numbers: Duterte's war on drugs

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Full Article here: https://gn24.ae/85764b206f6b000  See more at https://gulfnews.com/videos  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has declared he will never be tried by an international court for his war on illegal narcotics, and vowed no let up in a crackdown that he said he was winning and would see through "to the very end".

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00:00That is why I have resolved that no matter how long it takes, the fight against illegal

00:08drugs will continue because that is the root cause of so much evil.

00:15Despite international and local pressures, the fight will not stop until those who deal

00:28in it understand that they have to cease, they have to stop because the alternative

00:36are either jail or hell.

00:41In the Philippines, it is really an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

00:51You took a life, then you must pay with life.

00:56That is the only way to end it.

01:01I therefore ask Congress to amend all pending legislations to reimpose death penalty on

01:07the heinous crimes, especially in the trafficking of illegal drugs.

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