>> narrator: tonight. faced rsh criticism ader has for launching a bloody oo >> narrator: the filat has beenailed a "street level investigatioatof duterte's murderous campaign in action." (screaming) a testiment to a dark age of cruelty... (laughing) "...apocalyptically real." and, "so electrifying viewers will have to remind themselves: this is happening now." "on the president's orders",", a frontline special presentation. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

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>> hitler massacred thre million jews. now there is t million drug d addicts. (gun funes)y to slaughter them. >> another night, another killing in the philippine government's war on drugs. >> all of this openly encouraged by president duterte in what has become open season for anyone f suspected of being tied to drugs. >> his orders to his people and his police: ill them." at least if germany had hitler, the philippines would have had, you know, me. >> vigilante-style killings.-s many spect police involvement.

>> preside duterte is delivering with a vengeance on his promises: mass extra-judicial kilngs. >> my campaign against drugs will not stop until the last pusher and the last drug lord are... (mimics throat slicing) (cheers and plause) (crowd chanting "duterte!") (yelling in filipino language) >> the public has been largely supportive of duterte's ruthless metho, but that may finally be changing. octavio deimos (speaking filipino languaggu:

(sirens wailing) (man calling to attention) (applauding) >> please take a seat. >> we really want change. we want to make a difference, my dear friends.

we want to make the future of caloocan the home discipline. (man calling to attention) >> is very important to win the hearts and minds of the people. we do not want to kill. no. if we can resolve things thout having death penalty, then why n? okay, showtime. are you ready? >> ready, sir. >> fire onund and holster. and remember, gentlemen-- (speaking filipino language) ready, up! (guns firing)

hold fire! (bleep) mn it. (speaking filipino language) holster. (speaking filipino languag you do not know how to... (speaking filipinoanguage)gu son of a gun. do you understand one round? do you understand one round!? >> yes, si >> "yes, sir, yes, sir." (speaking filipino language) what is important in this kind of training is your discipline.i (exhales) up! (gun cocking and firing)

(speaking filipino language) in order for you to ea respect, you need two things. they are afraid of me or they like me. those two things onl (laughs) 30 push-ups. (speaking filipino language) >> two, three, four, five... >> (speaking filipino language) >> seven, eight, nine, ten... >> the philippine leader hasad faced harsh criticism for launching a bloody drug war in his country over the past year. thousands of people have been killed... >> reports of over 5,000 drug-related deaths. the poor have been mostly affected by the campaign. >> ...president rodrroo duterte. they sayis so-called war on drugs is a class war-- a war against the poor. axel martinez (speaking lipino language):

(peoe talking, laughing) martinez: (all conversing) >> one, two, three. (laughing) martinez: (all chatting, laughing) martinez:

(people talking in distance) martinez:: ♪ >> (singing) martinez: (sirens wailing) deimos:

martinez: >> the police have faced mounting criticism and accusations of rampant corruption and human rights abuses.. now there's a major shift in the campgn. will cabrales (speaking filipino language):

jake: >> oh. (flicks lighter) (hns honking in distandi) jake: >> oh. jake: cabrales:es jake: ♪

cabrales: (dry-fires) (vehicle engines ptering)

modequillo: ♪

(dogs barking, howling) (w an shouting) woman: officer: officer: aussa: woman: aussa:a: woman (screams): officer: woman (shouting): officer: woman: aussa:

woman: aussa: woman (shoutin: office woman: >> what's this? so many paraphenalias. so many, so many. what's this?hi >> jimmy? >> oh, what's that? woman: officers: (moaning, crying woman (cryin:

officer: cabrales:es woman: (crying) officer: aussa:arking) officer: woman: ♪ (barking continues)

modequillo: aussa: modequillo: (car horn honks)

♪ jake:

(ringing) i saw him with less thanthen grs of marijuana. (people talking backgacund) (cell door clangs shut) jake (in filipino language): (adolfo agustin singing)n ♪ and you know sometimes

i'd rather be... ♪ (continues singing) (hair cliprs buzzing) ♪ too much love will give you (continues singing) man: agustin: (baton clattering on bars)

(man groans) (baton clattering on bars) agustin: (man groans) agustin:

(engines revving) (people talking) orly fernandez: (vehicle engine chugging)

♪ ♪

>> remember that the drug situation is still very, v alive and vicious. (bird squawking) (child shouting) said, "do not destroy thet, i philippines.ne do not do drugs and kill our children, bedruse i will kill you." so what is wrong with that? (children shouting playfully)la ♪ modequillo:

now e president is very eager with regard to his drive against drug, drug war. man: >> if you wanto be a good ader... man: ust be a good follower. the approach of the president, there were a lot of, you know, comments that it's somewhat harsh. but, you know, we do sometimes need to have strong hand also. because drugs is the, the evil of all the evils. ♪ (filipino national anthem

playing on loudspeakers) deimosim (peoe talking in background) deimos:

(laughg)gh modequillo:lo deimos (chuckling): ♪ ♪ (tv pling pl distance) man (on tv):

(tv audio fades) (fernandez calls dog) man (on tv): (bird twittering) loremie sevilla:

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♪ >> police, just do your duty. just follow my instructions and you do not have anythiyt to woy. i will pi tect you. murder and homicide or whatever, unlawful killing, is not

allowed. your duty requires you to overco the resistance of the person you are arresting. if hifresists, and it is a violent one, placing in jeopardy the lives of my policemen you are free to kill the idiots. that is my order to you. officer: >> this one! reporter:

man: >> how many suspects, sir? man: reporter: ♪ (dog barking)

(horn honks) fuji: martinez: fuji: martinez:

deimos: (dog barking) boy: deimos: boy: deimos: (thunder rumbling) drug dealers, drug urs, the problem of the nation. (thunderumbling) those are usually the victims of the shooting.

>> (murmurs) >> lots of the shootings seem very professional. >> yes. >> you can understand why people mighmithink it was the police. >> yes, the pele might think that it was a... or it was done by some police officers, but actually, it was not. the police kill when they fight back. (chuckles) if the police do it, it will... it is, uh... it is legitimate, because we the police a law enforcers, so what we ate just doing is tooi

enforce thlaw. president duterte really hates drugs. a drug addt or drug pusher, that kind of person has no place already here. that's their choice. they don't want to live anymore. they wanto live in hell already. (chuckles) they choose to transfer, to reassign in hell. i heard that most of the

shooting incidents here in the soh was in the way of what you have said. >> it was the police? >> some said aut that. >> that the police werdoing the shootings? >> yes. >> other police officers said that >> yes, other police officers. ♪ (people talking in background) modequillo: (cheering and applauding)

>> these drug dealers know fully well the consequences of their crimal ains. the war agnst illegal drugs is far from over. >> almost every day, dead bodies are being recovered from the streets in manila, on this occasion, a tricycle taxi driver who was shot in the head. (tattoo needle buzzing) (buzzing stops) (buzzingziesumes)

(buzzing stops) martinez: (buzzing resumes) ♪

♪ fernandez:

martinez: fuji:

>> president duterte! you nsciously and deliberately put in place a permission structure for fass murder. and in due time, you will be held accountable for the thousands of extra-judicial killings in the philippines. rowd cheers) (speaking filipino language)

cajipe: >> huh? cajipe: modequillo: >> those shootings, they seem quite professional. can you understand why people think it's maybe police or

connected to police? >> uh, you know, there are a lot of people, they are thinking that police are involved with that. but no, we are... we're not after for the life of these people. in caloocan, we have 1,000 police there. i cannot see all of them. there is always a black eep. >> and some of the police in caloocan told us that some of the shootings were done by police. are those just black sheep or do youhink that comes from above? >> i do not know, because, you know, sometimes, there are incides that are still und u investigation. l the killings or all the incidents that is happing actually is... are allnder investigation. (people talking in background)un

>> was that something that you had heard, that maybe it was police from the district who had carried out those shootings?s? >> um, i do noo .. i do nott know. i do not have any comment for that. um, but what is important is, the investigation is rolling. ♪ (birds chirping) >> "shootings get caloocan top cop red. relief prompted by series of nsolved incidents in cdey. more than six months after he promised to ke caloocan ty less bloody, senior superintendent jemar modequillo was fired from his post effective monday for failing

to solve over half of shootings which happened during his watch." ♪ >> our lord make a lot of sacrifices to save people. so we are not actually god. no one ineperfect and wet re all sinners. we have sometimes to repent. but it's somewhat like unfair s to me. being a good soldier, we must be a good follower. we have follow. we have to follow.

(women singing) (siren wailing in distance) (police radiicbes) ♪ (vehicle engine puttering)pu (siren wailing in distance)

>> what are your sins? (hair clippers buzzing) the drugs war will not be sidelined. (clippers buzzing)g) instead, it will be as relentless and chilling... (clippers buzzing) (clippers click off) ...as on the day it began. (martineexpels breath)

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