Graphic Photos: Many Drug Users, Dealers Die After President Ordered Shooting On Sight

The official death toll since the Philippines president’s call on authorities and citizens last month to kill drug users and dealers on sight is almost 300 but the true figure is certain to be higher.The victims nobody reported missing, or cared enough about to identify, are unlikely to have made anyone’s list.

Now the horrific results of Duterte’s crackdown have been illustrated in an extraordinary series of photographs by Getty’s Dondi Tawatao. Continue...


According to police data, 293 suspected users and pushers were killed during police operations between July 1 and July 24. Human rights groups say this figure does not include countless people murdered by vigilantes in street executions.

There have been many reports of accused drug users and pushers being executed and left on streets with cardboard signs allegedly “admitting” their guilt.

Not that this worries Duterte as far as he is concerned everything is going to plan.

“Double your efforts. Triple them if need be,” he said in a message to police.

“We will not stop until the last drug lord, the last financier and the last pusher have surrendered or been put behind bars ... or below ground if you wish.”