All News war on drug In Focus war on drug BreakingNews of war on drug Your Interested Follow Story war on drug

I’m back: Ex-PM Thaksin’s chilling message to drug traffickers
SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2025
Pheu Thai patriarch says there will be no more coups and the current govt will complete its term
Thaksin offers to help Prayut suppress narcotics trafficking
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022
Former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose notorious “war on drugs” policy led to the killing of more than 2,800 people in "three months", has offered to help Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha bring an end once and for all to drug trafficking.
Will teen’s death be turning point in Duterte’s war on drugs?
THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 2017
When I heard of his death and saw the grainy, jerky footage of him being “escorted” by two older men in civilian wear, the images ending with his body crouched in a trash-filled street corner – shot dead – my mother’s heart clenched in sorrow.
No thought of ‘moral hazard’ when encouraging police to kill drug dealers 
SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2017
I would have thought that one of the most serious considerations in nationally adopting the policy, in the Philippines now and in Thailand a few years ago, of encouraging the police to randomly gun down anyone suspected of being involved in or connected with the drug trade, is simply not fully taken into account.
What did we do to deserve this?
SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 2017
Every day brings fresh news of a new depth of depravity plumbed in the case of the South Korean businessman kidnapped, and then killed, by policemen under the aegis of the Duterte administration’s war on drugs and crime.
Philippine police murdered mayor: investigators
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 06, 2016
MANILA - Philippine police murdered a town mayor while he was helpless in a jail cell, justice department investigators said Tuesday, contradicting claims by the accused and President Rodrigo Duterte that he was killed in a gun battle.
Trump says Philippines fighting drugs 'the right way': Duterte
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 03, 2016
MANILA - US President-elect Donald Trump told Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte that Manila was conducting its deadly drug war "the right way", Duterte said Saturday, in stark contrast to the criticism he received from President Barack Obama.
Philippines slams UN's Khmer Rouge warning as 'irresponsible'
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2016
MANILA - The Philippines criticised Tuesday as "irresponsible and alarming" a UN envoy's warning that life sentences meted out to two ex-Khmer Rouge leaders should serve as a warning to Manila over human rights abuses.
Philippine slaughter won’t hurt drug trade in long run 
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 06, 2016
John Arnone sounds like a hypocrite (Letters, Nov 6)!  He’s always whining that society picks on him because he smokes – cigarettes kill far more people than drugs – yet supports Philippine President Duterte’s murderous war on drugs where thousands of people have been slain by tered by extra judicial killings, by vigilante groups, some victims were hog-tied and almost all were poor people. 
What about a war on poverty?
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2016
The numbers remain grim: According to official data, 26 million Filipinos - about one in four - are mired in poverty. That’s 26.3 per cent of the population, out of which 2.6 million are also unemployed. A survey by Pulse Asia last July, conducted the wee
nationthailand

© 2026 All rights reserved., The Nation
Privacy Policy