Led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. Around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. Jonathan head reports on the philippines deadly war on drugs. The war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. Even here, in the jails. Many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. In cells, so packed with bodies, its hard to breathe. It says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. There are clearly concerns about real Drug Problems here. The focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. At least here they can stay alive. But not here. The bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. It started when this man, an outspoken Crime Fighting mayor was elect
Led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. Around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. Jonathan head reports on the philippines deadly war on drugs. The war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. Even here, in the jails. Many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. In cells, so packed with bodies, its hard to breathe. It says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. There are clearly concerns about real Drug Problems here. The focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. At least here they can stay alive. But not here. The bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. It started when this man, an outspoken Crime Fighting mayor was elect
Led to an unprecedented rise in the murder rate. Around 2,000 people were killed in just the first two months of the crackdown. Jonathan head reports on the philippines deadly war on drugs. The war on drugs is reaching all corners of the philippines. Even here, in the jails. Many of these men are already serving long sentences for drug use. In cells, so packed with bodies, its hard to breathe. It says something about the extent of the drug problem here in the philippines that the police have had to come here and raid one of the biggest prisons around manila. There are clearly concerns about real Drug Problems here. The focus, as with so much of this campaign, are the people at the very bottom of the trade, not the people running it. At least here they can stay alive. But not here. The bodies of dealers and addicts are discovered every night in the slums of manila, killed either by the police or by shadowy hit squads. It started when this man, an outspoken Crime Fighting mayor was elect