The Philippines is 7,641 islands, only 1/4th inhabited. Couldn’t they isolate meth addicts from their meth rather than killing them? Give them a fishing pole and let them concern themselves with their next meal.
He explains in his speech how when a dealer is brought to trial, there has to be expert witnesses to provide determination if a criminal should be hospitalized as insane or imprisoned, but the logistics of too few "witnesses" getting around a third world country corrupted by police and politicians made it impossible to even TRY a known dealer.
Duterte's attitude is:
We need the next generation to run the Philippines and if their brains are fried from drugs they are useless as fathers, mothers and leaders ... WHICH IS SO ABSOLUTELY TRUE ABOUT A NATION AND IT'S FUTURE ... so drugs must go NOW .. if not yesterday.
And he's a serious as a heart attack about THAT one.
He doesn’t target the addicts; he is targeting the dealers. Our “war on drugs” became a cash cow for various agencies, who in the end wanted it prolonged rather than won; he’s actually trying to win their war on drugs.
The problem is not addicts per se but that the drug cartels were moving in, and a lot of politicians were on the take.
And half of the 6000 murders last year were payback murders or gangs killing snitches.
compare to Mexico where 3000 plus drug murders happen each month.
most of the regular addicts turned themselves in, but were sent home. They are left alone unless they push drugs. We have rehab centers for only a few.