Duterte faces a reckoning

By Sui-Lee Wee and Camille Elemia

Duterte jokes to photographers as he holds an Israeli-made Galil rifle at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila in 2018. — AP

FOR years, the bodies piled up.

Some were shot by vigilantes on motorbikes. Others were executed with bullets to the head.

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