EVEN AS he reiterated his vow to crush illegal drug syndicates, President Rodrigo Duterte denounced extrajudicial killings and said he would put it “under control.”

“We cannot build a nation over the dead bodies of our own citizens. I’ll have to control [it],” the President said in a speech during oath-taking ceremonies for officials of the League of Cities of the Philippines and League of Provinces of the Philippines Wednesday night.

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