“We are not butchers who just kill people for no apparent reason,” reads one page of the booklet, citing the Philippines' feisty national police chief, Ronald Dela Rosa. Duterte said on Tuesday he regretted that his comments to media on Friday “came across as a personal attack” on Obama. His government said in a separate statement the fight against illegal drugs must be won. The booklet said that since Duterte took office 7,532 drug operations had been carried out, 12,972 pushers and users had been arrested, and police operations in July reduced crime by 49 percent from a year earlier. “Can you believe it's only been two months into the Duterte presidency?” the final page reads.

Source: Sunday Times September 06, 2016 11:26 UTC