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NY Times documentary highlights grief in Duterte's drug war

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/03/27/032717_ny.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">A suspected drug pusher lies dead on the ground as an investigator gathers forensic evidence after 3 suspected drug pushers were killed when a drug bust operation ended in a shootout with authorities in Manila, June 25, 2016. <cite>Noel Celis, AFP</cite></div></figcaption></figure></div><p>The relentless anti-drug campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte has been featured again by US-based publication The New York Times -- this time, in a 15-minute documentary that delves into the victims of summary killings, their grieving relatives, and the journalists who cover them.</p><p>&quot;We sent a film crew to the Philippines, where death, grief and fear fill the streets,&quot; the publication said in a trailer for the documentary &quot;When a President Says, &#x27;I&#x27;ll Kill You,&#x27;&quot; which was released Sunday.</p><p>Among those featured in the investigative piece is veteran photojournalist Raffy Lerma, who has covered nightly killings of drug killings in Metro Manila.</p><p>&quot;The President promised this, he promised that people will die. I am for the drug war, I want drugs to stop, but I&#x27;m not for the killing,&quot; Lerma told the New York Times.</p><p>&quot;There&#x27;s injustice going on around the country. And you begin to feel maybe we&#x27;re just starting.&quot;</p><p>Also featured in the documentary is a professed hitman allegedly hired to murder drug suspects.</p><p>&quot;Ang mga pinapatay rin namin talagang mga totally na masasamang tao. Wala na po kaming takot o konsensya para sila ay patayin,&quot; the self-tagged assassin said.</p><p>President Duterte on Saturday justified the deaths of thousands of poor drug peddlers in his war on crime, saying: &quot;You say that they are only killing the poor people. Well, I am sorry, I have to clean up, and until such time that the drug lords are dead, are out of the streets, walking at night, you&#x27;ll all be consumed.&quot;</p><p>Duterte however reiterated that only those who resisted arrest were killed in police efforts against drugs.</p><p>Watch the full New York Times documentary on the war on drugs below:</p><div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="321" id="nyt_video_player" marginHeight="0" marginWidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://static01.nyt.com/video/players/offsite/index.html?videoId=100000004819836" title="New York Times Video - Embed Player" width="480"></iframe></div><p>The New York Times also published last week an editorial urging the international community to suspend Manila&#x27;s trade incentives in order to hold Duterte accountable for the spate of drug-related killings.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/27/17/ny-times-wants-accountability-for-duterte-hit-ph-where-it-hurts-most">NY Times wants accountability for Duterte: &#x27;Hit PH where it hurts most&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>The paper previously published an editorial cartoon on Duterte&#x27;s campaign in August and a special drug war report titled &quot;They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals&quot; last December.</p>

<p>Also featured in the documentary is a professed hitman allegedly hired to murder drug suspects.</p><p> </p>

Also featured in the documentary is a professed hitman allegedly hired to murder drug suspects.