Filipinos arrested during a drug-buying operation wait to be brought to a police station for verification at a slum area in Manila in September 2016. According to the Philippine government, President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs had resulted in more than 5,000 deaths at the end of 2018, though opposition politicians and human rights groups place the toll as high as 20,000. Photo: EPA
Filipinos arrested during a drug-buying operation wait to be brought to a police station for verification at a slum area in Manila in September 2016. According to the Philippine government, President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs had resulted in more than 5,000 deaths at the end of 2018, though opposition politicians and human rights groups place the toll as high as 20,000. Photo: EPA