MANILA, Philippines — Anti-drug operations by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) since July 2016 when President Rodrigo Duterte assumed office, have resulted in the deaths of 5,980 suspected drug traffickers and the arrests of 269,046 suspects.
According to PDEA’s fourth year of the #RealNumbersPH — a campaign aimed at providing more transparency and gauging the administration’s drug war — law enforcement agencies involved in the government’s anti-drug war also conducted 185,661 operations in the same period.
PDEA also reported that 639 drug dens and 17 clandestine laboratories were destroyed since 2016 when Duterte, who championed the war against ill…
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