What Goes Around Comes Around

• Reuters, Rodrigo Duterte says he once threw a suspect from helicopter, The Guardian, December 29, 2016

Activists light candles in front of a church in Manila during a vigil for victims of extrajudicial killings in the government’s drug war. Photo: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images.

Wanted Man

• Oliver Holmes, Philippine senators call for Duterte to be impeached over killing confession, The Guardian, December 15, 2016

Paramedics attend the scene of an extrajudicial killing in Manila in September. Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte has vowed no let-up in his so-called “war on crime”. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.

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.

Persona non grata

• Oliver Holmes, Duterte says children killed in Philippines drug war are “collateral damage”, The Guardian, October 17, 2016

Paramedics attend the scene of an extrajudicial killing in Manila in September. President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte and his death squads killed more than 3,600 in their so-called “war on crime”. Photo: Noel Celis/AFP/Getty Images.