Poor Filipinos most vulnerable in Duterte's drug war: study

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Poor Filipinos most vulnerable in Duterte's drug war: study

25 June 2018

By Patrick Quintos

Poor Filipinos are the most vulnerable in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, data from a research by some of the country's top schools showed Monday. The study focused on the 5,021 drug-related killings from May 10, 2016 to September 29, 2017 reported by various media organizations. May 10 is the day Duterte won the presidential elections. The research only indicated the jobs of around 15.7 percent of the victims but it showed that most of them were poor. Two-hundred twenty three (223) of the victims--whose jobs were identified in the study--were either tricycle, pedicab, or jeepney drivers, barkers, construction workers, vendors, farmers, or garbage collectors. There were also 38 victims who were reported as unemployed.