Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living

BBC ^ | 26 Aug, 2016

[MtnClimber]

The Philippines is in the midst of a brutal war on drugs sanctioned by the controversial President Rodrigo Duterte, which has seen almost 2,000 killings in a matter of weeks. The BBC's Jonathan Head explores the country's dark underbelly of dealers and assassins through the story of one woman trapped in a chilling predicament.

[MtnClimber]

Her husband or boyfriend should be careful not to upset her!

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

He’s a contract killer too. This isn’t good. Extrajudicial killings of people corrupt third world cops say are ‘drug dealers’ in order to justify offing people who they consider a nuisance.

[dfwgator]

Sounds like a good way to kill off your opposition. Just accuse them of being drug dealers.

[sunrise_sunset]

Cops there are frequently in cartels and even more frequently corrupt. It’s likely some cop is hiring her to get rid of rivals or people he has a vendetta against.

[CopperTop]

Has she ever retired a human by mistake?

Proactive enforcement. A two edged sword.

I hafta wonder if the occasional "accidental innocent" killed from this plan is offset by the collateral damage not inflicted by these dealers and their crap.

Just a thought. d:^)

[onona]

Very conflicted.....

Would Christ approve ?

[Vigilanteman]

I was friends with a co-worked from Indonesia in a previous life. He told me it was common for cops to go through their criminal files on a slow day.

Like most places, it was less than 2% of the population who accounted for 98% of the worst crime.

As time went on, these people would mysteriously end up dead from street brawls, attempted car jackings and the like.

The police would always investigate their deaths, sometimes even very carefully for the files. They just never found anything by some strange coincidence.

[ThanhPhero]

She asks her priest for forgiveness at confession in church, but does not dare to tell him what she does.

if she does not confess her sins by name she is not forgiven them.000

[null and void]

*shrug* Here we do it by having a high enough violent crime rate that a DNC official who worked on voting issues can be murdered on the street and it can be passed off as a robbery, when nothing but his life was taken.

The biggest killer of mankind

[JoeFromSidney]

See my novel, THE JUSTICE COOPERATIVE.

[Theoria]

Sounds like Afghanistan and Iraq. Ohh look..he’s a terrorist.

[jsanders2001]

Too bad Maria oesnt kill corrupt politicians. There’s a whole lotta work here in the states for her...: )

[jsanders2001]

Too bad Maria oesnt kill corrupt politicians. There’s a whole lotta work here in the states for her...: )

[Betty Jane]

I read it about 10 years ago and loved that book.

[little jeremiah]

*shrug* Here we do it by having a high enough violent crime rate that a DNC official who worked on voting issues can be murdered on the street and it can be passed off as a robbery, when nothing but his life was taken.

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I have heard that a usb was taken...

[Wolfie]

I hafta wonder if the occasional "accidental innocent" killed from this plan is offset by the collateral damage not inflicted by these dealers and their crap.

Would you be willing to sacrifice a loved one to "offset" that "collateral damage"?

[Bulwyf]

Not up to the priest either way, he has zero power for that. Or anything.

[Ken H]

They are not vigilantes. They are hitmen who kill for money, who work for corrupt cops and drug dealers. Amoral assassins.

And they have a number of supporters at FR.