{"id":3175,"date":"2020-10-01T10:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T15:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2021-01-26T13:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:20:34","slug":"police-killings-in-philippines-rising-amid-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/police-killings-in-philippines-rising-amid-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Killings in Philippines Rising amid Covid- 19 Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-3176 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29179506980_6fa860ec05_z.jpg\" alt=\"Philippines police make arrest for drug use or sale\" width=\"399\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29179506980_6fa860ec05_z.jpg 600w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29179506980_6fa860ec05_z-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29179506980_6fa860ec05_z-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29179506980_6fa860ec05_z-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MANILA \u2014 According to its own statistics, the Philippines government&#8217;s bloody &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In August, the statistics show, that the police killed 46 people during anti-drug operations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Human Rights Watch had reported a more than 50 percent increase in \u201cdrug war\u201d deaths during the COVID-19 lockdown, from April through July. The new data from the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency\u2019s monitoring system, #RealNumbersPH, shows that the situation is getting worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Photo Credit: Philippines intensifies war on drugs (Photo from: Al Jazeera)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Read the whole story<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/09\/28\/another-spike-philippines-drug-war-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 According to its own statistics, the Philippines government&#8217;s bloody &#8220;war on drugs&#8221; has worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic. In August, the statistics show, that the police killed 46 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,28],"tags":[171,272,289,102],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justiceandpeace","category-latest-news","tag-jpic","tag-justice-peace","tag-justice-and-peace","tag-philippines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29179506980_6fa860ec05_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/combonimissionaries.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}