Sounds like it's getting pretty intense down there
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/duterte-declares-martial-law-on-southern-philippine-island-of-mindanao/2017/05/23/cf77fcae-3fd0-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.ace5718c9bbf
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 23, 2017, 05:45:03 PM
Sounds like it's getting pretty intense dowm there
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/duterte-declares-martial-law-on-southern-philippine-island-of-mindanao/2017/05/23/cf77fcae-3fd0-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.ace5718c9bbf
I think Duerte campaign of extra-judicial killings had already made the place ugly intense a while back.
Quote from: mongers on May 23, 2017, 05:55:44 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 23, 2017, 05:45:03 PM
Sounds like it's getting pretty intense dowm there
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/duterte-declares-martial-law-on-southern-philippine-island-of-mindanao/2017/05/23/cf77fcae-3fd0-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.ace5718c9bbf
I think Duerte campaign of extra-judicial killings had already made the place ugly intense a while back.
Well yes, but this seems unrelated.
'storm' is a bit strong. But it sounds like the cavalry should be there tomorrow.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on May 23, 2017, 06:26:30 PM
Quote from: mongers on May 23, 2017, 05:55:44 PM
I think Duerte campaign of extra-judicial killings had already made the place ugly intense a while back.
Well yes, but this seems unrelated.
How's the drug campaign playing to the rest of Asia?
I asked because I've seen the news coverage, but I bumped into acquaintance of mine just back from the Philippines and he insisted the people love it and the President, all the reporting is 'fake news'/overblown.
Few days later I see a documentary filmed in the shanty towns and depicting what you'd expect to see from a police/gang/death-squad led terror campaign.
Maybe it's a case of the middle class and wealthy/well-healed ignoring or enjoying the suffering of the lower classes? :unsure: