President Rodrigo Duterte gave impetus to the government’s campaign against illegal drugs by vowing to gather drug addicts and throw them off his helicopter to be fed to fishes.

In a speech in Lanao del Norte last week, Duterte said he will pick up drug addicts, bring them to his helicopter handcuffed and interrogate them. Afterward, he would either push them off the helicopter or make them jump into a river.

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