Don Rodrigo

• Oliver Holmes, Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte says he personally killed criminals, The Guardian, December 14, 2016

The grieving parents of a suspected drug user killed by the police in Manila, Philippines. More than 3000 people have died in a bloody three-months-old so-called “war on crime”. As some officers claim, Don Rodrigo’s hit squads are composed of active police officers, but the murders are conducted in such a way as to make them appear to be perpetrated by “vigilantes” to deliberately obscure police involvement and preclude investigation. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.