What happened in the Filipino drug war that led to the arrest of Dutti?

Manila (Reuters) -The Philippine President, Rodrigo Deuttri, was arrested on Tuesday in Manila based on an international criminal court for “war on drugs” that set his term in his position and that killed thousands of Filipinos.

Here are some facts about the drug war during the presidency of Doteri from 2016 to 2022:

The campaign is due to “killing”

As the mayor of the southern Filipino city of Davao, Rodrigo Deuttri was known as “The Punisher” for his harsh policies. His sermons full of profanity and his threats to kill the drug gangs were a feature of his successful campaign for the presidency in 2016.

Among his remarks during the campaign: “Forget human rights laws. If I reach the presidential palace, I will only do what I did as a mayor. O motivated drugs, men and doing, it is better to go out. Because I was killing you.”

He said that his campaign in Davao kept the citizens safe from the crime. He also repeated his intention to a violent suppression campaign for Reuters during the campaign.

“I say let’s kill five criminals every week, so they will be eliminated,” he told Reuters.

The startup at the country level

It did not take a long time until the same type of police campaign operations were carried out at the country level.

By the end of 2016, Dotti’s drug war was under implementation throughout the country, and the number of body was recorded.

Police killed more than 2000 people in the months after the opening of Dotte on June 30 to the end of the year. Most deaths were described as an exchange of fire.

Human rights monitors believe that many have been implemented by vigilance who suffer from official sanctions and said that the real number of deaths was much higher, both of which were the accusations that the government denied.

Repression and death did not deter the popularity of Dotte.

A poll published by the Social Weather Stations Research Agency in December 2016 showed that 77 percent of the Filipinos were satisfied with the performance of Dotte.

In 2018, Reuters staff received the Politzer Award for a series of drug war investigation stories.

The final outcome

By the time Dotter left his post in 2022, the official fees for the drug war doubled at least three times. Police said 6200 suspects were killed during drug control operations.

The Philippine government has officially approved 6,248 deaths due to the anti -drug campaign.

But activists say that the real losses of repression were much larger, as thousands of drug users were killed in urban and poor areas, and many of them in official “watch lists”, in mysterious circumstances.

Doterti was not recognized in his defense of his campaign and says he asked the police to kill only self -defense.

The families of some of those who kill and human rights advocates later extracted the bodies, which are sometimes accompanied by Reuters, and compared the remains of death certificates and official reports.

Dozens of cases showed violent deaths, as the death certificates included the natural causes. In one case, the death certificate was included in pneumonia as a cause of death, although the extracted body had a bullet in the skull.

Investigation of the International Criminal Court and the arrests

In February 2018, the International Criminal Court Prosecutor’s Office said that it would perform a preliminary investigation into the deaths in the Philippines.

Busty a month later, Doterti said he would withdraw from the International Criminal Court. The director entered in March 2019.

The International Criminal Court was suspended in 2021 after the Philippines claimed that it had a judicial system that is able to investigate and trial violations.

However, in 2023, the International Criminal Court was re -investigated after the court said it was not satisfied with the Philippine efforts.

The current president’s government, Ferdinand Marcus Junior, said that it would not cooperate with the International Criminal Court, but said in late 2024 that it would consider any arrest warrant, and the Minister of Justice informed Reuters in January that the government was open to cooperation with the International Authority.

(Written by Kai Johnson; Edit Clarence Fernandez)