Titled “Project Duterte: Law enforcement or mass terror? The Philippines’ war on drugs,” the documentary by RT Documentary (RTD) tackled the brutal drug-related executions under the so-called “Project Duterte” (Drug Use and Trafficking Elimination thru Rehabilitation, Training and Enforcement).
The nearly one-hour documentary showed various scenes of killed drug suspects, including one whose head was wrapped in adhesive tape and another stabbed by ice pick.
It also featured the controversial “Oplan Tokhang” or knock and plead campaign to seek civilian help in catching drug suspects and stop drug use.
Also shown is an actual drug buy-bust in Koronadal City and life inside overcrowded jails and rehabilitation centers that had been further strained by the glut of drug users.
grieving relatives of slain drug suspects
jailed drug suspects
a former convict who exposed the presence of a “shabu” (crystal methamphetamine) inside the New Bilibid Prison
a “vigilante” or assassin who admitted to being hired by authorities to silence would-be whistleblowers
police officers who conducted the “Oplan Tokhang”
There was an insinuation from the interviews with the drug suspects and their kin that police officers are also involved.
Kosareva also interviewed the man of the hour, President Duterte, who defended his drug war campaign and acknowledged that those who were or would be caught in the crossfire are “collateral damage.”
“Even if it is true that they were really killed or there was a mistake somewhere. That 3,000 compared with the lives of a million Filipinos that can be destroyed with drugs,” Duterte said.
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