Why Is the U.S. Silent on Massacre of Drug Users in the Philippines?

‘In the past few weeks, a spate of horrific killings have taken place across the Philippines. Murders of people who use drugs, people who sell drugs, and people who have simply been assumed to do either. No trials, no due process, these are state-sanctioned extrajudicial killings encouraged by the new President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.
Upon assuming presidency, Duterte made a public call for police and citizens alike to execute people who use or sell drugs, promisingmedals for citizens who comply, and pardons for police if they are charged with human rights violations while carrying out the executions. Since making this harrowing call to action, over 700 people suspected to have been involved with drugs have been murdered.’
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