Duterte vows to double down on drug war as raid kills 21

By Lindsay Murdoch
Updated August 16 2017 - 11:33pm, first published 11:30pm

Bangkok: When Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines last year, he vowed to wipe out his country's drugs trade in six months. He said fish in Manila Bay would grow fat from the bodies of drugs suspects.

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