Also worth noting that the current president, the child of a dictator, is using his support to impeach Duterte’s daughter. He also said he wouldn’t support any action of the ICC and now is.

If this action was in isolation, it could be taken at face value, but with other manoeuvrings, it’s looking like Marco’s consolidating his grip on power.

The other point and kind of backing up what you’ve said, is that Fillipino’s I’ve talked to have commented that drug problems in their area disappeared but used to be pretty horrible.

I’m not one to defend crimes against human’s, but one cannot discount the level of criminality and the impact it was already having on people’s lives. Whether the tactics were fair or decent is one thing, but another is, did it work? Did it solve a serious problem the country was grappling with. You only have to look at Mexico to realise that if you don’t deal with these things, the level of murder and suffering often skyrockets.

There should be accountability, but I’m not sure this is about accountability.