Between Duterte and a death squad, a Philippine mayor fights drug-war violence

By Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall

(Advisory: Strong language in paragraph nine)

By Clare Baldwin and Andrew R.C. Marshall

In the past eight months, a death squad known as the Bonnet Gang has gunned down more than 60 drug suspects in the Philippine town of Pateros. Mayor Ike Ponce has had enough.

    He has put up banners across Pateros, in the southeast of Metro Manila, to denounce the gang, which is named for the hoods its motorbike-riding gunmen wear to hide their identities.

    Extrajudicial killings are “not the right process to stop the proliferation of

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