President Marcos acknowledged that “abuses” were committed and that the human rights situation became a cause for concern during the previous administration, when his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte waged a bloody antidrug crackdown. | MRamosINQ /PDI
“But instead of going after everyone,” he said, his administration “ to identify the key areas that we have to tackle … so that we can see a diminution of the activity of the drug syndicates.”
In March, Marcos had also said the Philippines would “disengage” from the International Criminal Court after it rejected the government’s appeal to suspend its inquiry into Duterte’s drug war—although Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra later clarified that the appeal continues “unless President Marcos orders its withdrawal.”The President’s predecessor is the father of his running mate in the 2022 election campaign, now Vice President Sara Duterte.
“[In] my first command conference with our policemen, I said we will adjust. Let us adjust our focus …. As to the enforcement, to put it very bluntly, I simply told them, ‘Look I’m not interested in the kid who makes P100 a week selling weed.’ That’s not the person that I want you to go after,” the President had also said.On Oct.
In his speech on Friday, he noted that “Those managing them [the drug syndicates] were those at the top, sometimes including police officials and others in the government. They are the ones we’re running after.”
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