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Lessons For Duterte, Why Thailand Softened Its Drug War

Post author By lmacret
Post date September 23, 2016

Thai police officer and seized drugs at the police HQ in Bangkok

The current deadly war on drugs in the Philippines echoes what happened in Thailand in the early 2000s — massive arrests and a wave of extrajudicial killings. Officials in Bangkok now admit the crackdown didn’t work, th

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