The Vice President Leni Robredo revealed that in the name of Pres. Duterte's war against illegal drugs, a "palit-ulo" strategy is being engaged by the government forces in distressed areas. Robredo said in a video recorded messages uploaded in a YouTube by the anti-dr*g network last Monday"They (communities) told us of the ‘palit-ulo’ scheme which means ‘exchange heads’ where the wife, husband or relative in a so-called drug list will be taken if the person himself could not be found,"
The Vice President messages on the recorded video will be shown at the meeting organized by the Washington-based Drug Reform Coordination Network(DRCNet) for the upcoming 60th United Nations(UN) Commission on Narcotic Dr*gs yearly meeting on Thursday at the Vienna International Center. As a strong critic of the dr*g war, Robredo repeat her opposition against the Duterte Administration's ferocious war against dr*g, noticing that more than 7000 have become the sufferer of extrajudicial kil*ings from the start of the war against dr*g last July 2016. Robredo added that her office obtains complaints from some residents in distressed communities and areas in Metro Manila that they are assembled by the authorities at the time of implementation of the Philippine national Police "Oplan Tokhang."
Tokhang is the Bisayan term meaning "knock and request" operation was apparently conducted by police officers to visit the alleged dr*g addicts at their houses and gain the confidence of the addicts to correct their ways and behavior. rather than gaining the confidence of the addicts to surrender, Robredo said distressed areas are
" rounded up in places like basketball courts, women separated from men, those with tattoos asked to stand in the corner, their belongings searched."Robredo added
"People are told that they didn’t have the right to demand search warrants because they were squatters and did not own the properties on which their houses were built,"
She uttered that those who are asking for search warrants
"have been beaten and physically abused for doing so."
"Our people feel both hopeless and helpless—a state of mind that we should all take seriously,"
Robredo calls the attention of the general public to oblige the Duterte administration to believe liable those behind thousands of dr*g kil*ings and illegal arrest.She told that government officials should be
" honest about the basis of the drug war."The vice President added that
"You cannot kill addicts and declare the problem solved… We must all demand greater transparency in the government’s war on drugs because this is a major, publicly-funded campaign,"
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