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Life can be very hard here in the Philippines.

In here in case on, the largest city in my country, and the place where I live,

life has gotten even harder since one man came to power back in 2016.

Rodrigo Roa Duterte

He is often described in the same way as the American president Donald Trump.

People say he is a populist and an agitator, but honestly our president makes Trump look like an angel.

Duterte has been a very vocal supporter of the extrajudicial killings of drug dealers and those

that do business with them. I know that certain human rights organizations have estimated that

Duterte has been directly and indirectly responsible for almost 1500 murders committed by

what has been come to be known as the Davo Death Squads.

There, they murdered without a care, even sometimes targeting children in their attempt to clean

up the streets. It was bad back then, but it got even worse after 2016 when it became president.

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