Contradictions in Philippine President Duterte’s War on Drugs

“It’s not a lie, Drugs will make your Mama cry” was painted on a board by the gate of a primary school in a fishing village tucked away in the Visayan islands. It was a fading sign left over from an anti-drug campaign a couple of years ago, which apparently didn’t work.

The menace had not been too obvious in the small coastal villages, lying side-by-side…