President Rodrigo Duterte was elected on a promise to eradicate drug trafficking in the Philippines. Two years after gaining power and with at least 20,000 deaths linked to a ferocious government policy of hunting down drug-addicts and former police informers, the Church is speaking up against police violence.

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