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Drug War Victims Seek Court Protection, Challenge PNP's 'Double Barrel' Policy
Families of victims from the Philippines' war on drugs have urged the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional a PNP directive that justified operations like 'Double Barrel' under former President Rodrigo Duterte. The policy, enacted a decade ago, has been linked to thousands of deaths.
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