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Is the Deadly Philippine Anti-Drug Campaign Getting Less Deadly?

Ralph Jennings

   TAIPEI, TAIWAN - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's campaign
   against the illegal drug trade drew international attention in 2016 and
   2017 with a rise in what appeared to be the extrajudicial killings of
   drug crime suspects.

   Against the outcry by human rights groups against the Duterte
   administration's "war on drugs," law enforcement is now testing other
   means of controlling the problem as the slayings take a lower profile.
   Duterte had vowed during his 2016 presidential campaign to stamp out
   criminality within three months.

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