Posted on 10/12/2016 4:10:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Drug users who want to avoid becoming another bloody casualty in Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte's war on narcotics have been making coffins as part of one local rehabilitation programme.
Addicts in the city of Olongapo, three hours to the north of the capital Manila, are taught to make coffins after they hand themselves over to authorities. In the Philippines, where more than 3,600 people have been killed since Dutere's election in June, the process is known as 'surrendering'.
The macabre irony of the programme is not lost on those who enrol in it. "I knew that if I don't change, I will be in one of those caskets," one 44-year-old man, who declined to be named, told Reuters in a small workshop where nine other former drug users were working on coffins.
In Olongapo, drug users are taught carpentry and paid 5,000 Philippine pesos ($103, £83. €92) a month to build the coffins in the programme which is run by the local government....
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
Hope they’re not building their own.
This type of “rehabilitation” probably works MUCH better at preventing recidivism than making license plates! :-)
In no way do I condone murder; on the other hand, if you’re going to wage a war on drugs...
Certain quick, fatal punishment obviously concentrates the mind!
That is so cool!
Which fedgov police agency would you trust with such power?
Genius. The guy is saving lives.
A dealer has your child’s life in his sights.
Duterte gets it.
And they’re getting paid.
Who, me?
ICE!
Or maybe ATF or any of the alphabet.
Wanna know whom I wouldn't trust?
Dope dealers!
So you’d trust the FBI with such power.
-smh-
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