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Why are Filipinos afraid of their president?

President Duterte of the Philippines has handed over his war on drugs from the police to the military. Deaths outnumber those in the 1970s, under Ferdinand Marcos. People are scared. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's South-East Asia Correspondent, Jonathan Head, is in Manila.
Photo: Two Filipino boys carrying a white coffin with a victim of extra-judicial killings, in Caloocan City, last month.
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