Duterte renews war on drugs

President Rodrigo Duterte unabashedly renewed his threat to kill drug dealers in his final state of the nation speech this week. Duterte, 76, who won a sixyear presidential term in 2016, is winding down his tumultuous presidency amid a pandemic, a battered economy and a legacy overshadowed by his campaign against illegal drugs that set off complaints of mass murder before the International Criminal Court.

Duterte reiterated his threat to kill drug dealers, explaining it is tougher to fight criminals “the legal way,” while daring the International Criminal Court to record his remarks. More than 6,000 mostly petty suspects have been killed during police drug raids.