Mr. Duterte has made the war against illicit drugs a centerpiece of his administration. “My country transcends everything else, even the limitations.”More than 6,000 killings across the Philippines have been linked to the antidrug campaign that began after Mr. Duterte took office in June. “He has fascist dreams,” Loretta Rosales, 77, a former chairwoman of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines and a leftist politician, said of Mr. Duterte in an interview. She was detained and tortured under Marcos, who was elected president in 1965 and imposed martial law from 1972 to 1981. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“As a martial law victim and survivor, I detest his martial law threat,” Ms. Rosales said, referring to Mr. Duterte’s warning.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 10:31 UTC