20,000 Filipinos Killed, 8000 Missing.

President Rodrigo Duterte, a True Criminal, & Modern day Hitler.

Joseph Mayuyo
9 min readMay 4, 2022
Photo by Hitoshi Namura on Unsplash

The War On Drugs in The Philippines approaches its unrelenting ending before it officially expires in May of 2022. Rodrigo Duterte must give up his presidential chair, and he is not going into the best retirement. He will be facing crimes against humanity charges with the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The country has been suffering in silence. I would describe it as a “Khalifa drought; of tears.” Too many innocent lives are lost, and the grieving families find themselves in an insecure purgatory. They have to suffer without a voice for their innocent child, parent, kindred, or friends that died at the bloody hands of the 2016–2022 Philippine President. His days are numbered.

The country is finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a bloody shame, the last six years have been the most traumatizing years for anyone that lives, works, or travels to the Philippines. The sounds of a whaling mother coming from a distance. Screaming, “Why did you kill my son! He’s just a student! He’s not a drug pusher! We’re just poor people!”

Extrajudicial killings were this president’s style. It’s corrupt, but the people voted him in. They just didn’t know the first person would be shot just a few…

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Joseph Mayuyo

I write about being a functional addict in dysfunctional relationships. Living in a world that wasn’t created for us to thrive, I write to keep us alive. #Hope