The people left behind by Philippines' brutal war on drugs

Duterte’s war on drugs has left thousands of children living as orphans or in single-parent families struggling to put food on the table
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, August 14, 2018

One year after visiting the Philippines to document the impact of President Rodrigo Duterte’s crackdown on drugs, photographer James Whitlow Delano returns to the city of Navotas, Metro Manila, to assess the impact. More than 4,500 people have been killed in the Philippines in what the authorities claim to be lawful anti-drug operations carried out in the two years since President Rodrigo Duterte came to power. Human rights groups say the actual number of deaths could be up to three times higher, with police officers routinely executing unarmed suspects and, in many instances, planting drugs or weapons on their victims to justify the killings.