Drug users overseas to Duterte: ‘Stop playing God!’

By Natashya Gutierrez

Across the ocean from the Philippines, Indonesians refused to keep quiet about the drug-related killings in their neighboring country.

Earlier this month, Indonesian drug users from the Indonesian Drugs User Network (PKNI), gathered in front of the Philippine embassy in Jakarta carrying posters, protesting the drug war of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. (READ: 'Nanlaban sila': Duterte's war on drugs)

“Duterte is [a] mass serial killer,” read one poster. Another was more direct: “Stop killing people who use drugs.”

The harsher ones were unforgiving. A poster with Duterte’s face and a Hitler-like mustache was displayed alongside the words: “Duterte… Stop playing God!”

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