I will go crazy here!” she shouted, pleading with police to “please have mercy on me.”The woman wore a rubber bracelet bearing Duterte’s name. The poor, who were among Rodrigo Duterte’s strongest supporters, are getting a foretaste of the war against crime he has vowed to wage. The poor, who were among Duterte’s strongest supporters, are getting a foretaste of the war against crime he has vowed to wage. In a crackdown, dubbed “Oplan Rody,” bearing Duterte’s name, police rounded up hundreds of children or their parents to enforce a night curfew for minors, and taken away drunk and shirtless men roaming metropolitan Manila’s slums. “That to me has to be addressed very strongly and people should not take it complacently.”Copyright 2016 The Associated Press.

Source: Washington Post June 17, 2016 06:43 UTC