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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent, and Guill Ramos in Manila

Mother of two sons shot in Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ dares hope for justice

People at night with banners and candles
Relatives of victims of the ‘war on drugs’ and their supporters hold a candlelit protest against the former president Rodrigo Duterte on 11 March. Photograph: Basilio Sepe/AP

Sarah Celiz wept as she sat at home watching footage from Manila’s main airport on her phone. They were tears of sadness, and of relief.

The former Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte, who had just landed in the capital, was surrounded by officials and being taken into custody. The international criminal court had issued an arrest warrant over his bloody “war on drugs”, in which her two sons were among the tens of thousands of people killed in deprived urban areas.

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