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Reporter Daniel Berehulak spent some time photographing in the horrors happening in the Philippines. This is his story.
Caution: The photos he took are incredibly graphic... http://nyti.ms/2gSDf0T
I'm sorry I sound a little clickbaity, I just read the story and wanted to share it, because I think everyone needs to see what is happening over there.
dandydust
people who turn themselves in, with the promise of safety, are later murdered
Omaration12
Wow this new way of reading the news is pretty amazing. First time seeing it.
BountyHunterBobaFett
The story was a hard read but the layout of that site was fantastic.
WillowRosenberg
Who the fuck is downvoting this? Yes, its fucking harsh, but its the ugly harsh reality that everyone should be hearing about.
grychhomiequan
Also to note about Duterte: he said god spoke to him and told him not to curse, his opponents are turning up dead, conveniently as users 1/2
grychhomiequan
He has repeatedly called obama a son of a whore, tried to cut US ties, aligned self with China and Russia, while ceding islands to China 2/2
FeaurieVladskovitz
Damn, this needs a lot more coverage.
apocalyptic0n3
This horrific campaign, in which Duterte said he will "kill more addicts than Hitler did Jews", is what Trump said he supported last week
Danowar1990
Let me guess, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." Yeah, tell that to the vigilantes currently murdering you.
CoachCoCo
One of thebsickest tricks out there. Turn yourself in for free help and forgiveness. Follow it up later killing the list you now have.
derppnukem
OK so if you're a serial killer and you want to get away with it just go to the Philippines an plant drugs on your victims. Murder tourism.
asukara
Yes.
akmarksman
Sprinkle some crack on him..
Ch3mis7
Dude, that should be their new out reach slogan. "do some drugs, kill a guy, plant the drugs on him, fun stuff"
comeflywithme
"It's more fun (killing) in the Philippines"
iDrinkDrano
I read that in the voice of the Shamwow guy
AkLonewolf
iDrinkDrano
For no particular reason that reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4sEwYmsZf8
AkLonewolf
that reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3quo6TvBCM
cfosho
American living in Manila here. Many Filipinos I have met supported Duterte at first and are now appalled by what is happening. Scary times.
Srslythoguys
Damn, NyTimes killin it with the page layout. Loved how the pictures and videos appeared while reading.
PikaChunin
Yeah, I agree. It was very thoughtful and presented the content well. It made scrolling down hard, though.
Srslythoguys
Was it difficult to scroll because you were afraid of what was going to pop up?
PikaChunin
Having such images appear at once, fullscreen, highlighted it's pain so vivid that such a small change on a screen could amplify the impact.
tonescabone
Don't know where I read it but some outlet was saying Duerte has his own hands in the drug scene and is behind all the killings to take out
tonescabone
Competition. Either way, this is a fucking crisis! These people deserve a trial. Neighbors reporting neighbors and vigilantes taking care
tonescabone
Of it is luda! I just lost all cred with "Luda". Didn't I?
Neckcormon
Thing is my feathers home country (el salvador) has had more killings and yet no news about it not even an outcry
isildur
I've seen a number of articles on it in the NY Times (The most recent 1 wasn't great though, oddly focusing on meager finances of the gangs)
YouKnowWhatTheySayAboutWomenAndTrolleyCars
Jesus Christ. That's astonishing journalism.
codeking80
I really like how that story was presented with the photos behind the text like that...I'd love to have a news aggregator app like that
AntiProtonBoy
I think it sucked. I really dislike wanky JavaScript presentations.
Femail76
(it drew me in. Now I need some happy shit to sleep.) Also. That presentation was on point
justhereforthelurking
absolutely fantastic presentation, really draws you through the story.
EZ0422
I thought the same thing.
cable001
Yeah, this is one of the best seamless and visually striking presentations I've seen from a mobile device.
CountessVonFingerbang
Just as good on desktop, too.
FuzzyBwalls
Till it glitches when youre trying to scroll and brings you to the top over and over
Srslythoguys
Now imagine that the story is a fiction horror story, I'd spend hours on a site like that.
SaucyDisses
I think you'd enjoy the Twitter "Moments" on their app. Imagery & text relationship and sequence are both similar and dynamic.
showmehowyoudothattrick
Anyone have any ideas about how the effect was created? I have no idea about how website work and want to learn.
BigGreyMonster
Believe it's with a Microsoft program called Sway
massakayne
this is how we do it!!!! http://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_parallax.asp
czaarticus
The mobile version of this article is so well designed that i didn't read most of the article.
TalosGuideUs
I agree
Mycologics
The photos were perfectly placed with the text. That's just being lazy
czaarticus
Exactly i was so impressed with the layout i forgot to read the article, fuck me right?
Mycologics
I dunno, you seem rather shortman
czaarticus
Believe or not, that is my real lastname
wellwellwelllookwhoscomecrawlingback
Here's another article they did with amazing graphics http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/06/world/middleeast/2015-hajj-stampede.html
BackgroundCharacter
some are actually straight up murders under the guise of extra judicial killings. some dudes have used the war on drugs to settle grudges.
saltymcgee
Correct, the not so Main streams media has been reporting this for months.
interrobangcat
Yeah, in the U.S. you only go to jail when they plant drugs on you...
dandydust
so easy to claim someone's on drugs, if you want to have them killed. easy to kill when it's casual and considered resisting arrest/police
Gdan79
No repercussions if they are wrong too. "I thought they were a drug dealer" is enough to get you off.
dandydust
no judicial process whatsoever
megathug
I have lots of family in the PI that all support Duterte, but I can't help but feel sick to my stomach.
Markzrithym
I'm from Philippines, you decide killed by drug addicts or killed the drug addicts?
ohmygodtheysaidnewzealand
They love him aye, its quite incredible.
derpipotato
You can buy drugs here like candy. His methods are terrifying but no one had the guts to even speak so forcefully against the problem before
RepostFromLastWeek
I wonder if vigilantes are just sadists and psychopaths who get off of killing or do they genuinely believe they're doing the right thing.
Fahargo
Humans have to believe what they are doing is right or they're a psychopath. There are very few psychopaths
SolictedDickPicsUponRequest
Read history and you will see what going on in PI is the norm. You fool yourself if you think your neighbors aren't capable of the same.
megathug
I've also gotten feedback from my Filipina mother on this. She thinks that this is all made up...
StopTheSlideIntoAuthoritarianism
Some of my dad's HS/college batchmates are in denial too on FB. Cognitive dissonance, just-world fallacy
kingtempletonthe3rd
This guy is fucked. On his first 100 days of presidency, he had 3600 people killed
nemethkaroly
Same happens normally. Cops and journalist are bribed, so it ends up in shade, but it happens. Let's hope this will have results instead.
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kdm36
How can people be stupid like you?
HiMyNameIsKevinIHaveChangnesia
It's just a troll, no reason to get riled up.
BlackHartMTB
You're insane.
carnivalesm
Your blatant disregard for human life is disgusting and your promotion of what is essentially genocide is horrifying.
Bushwookie825
I'm a bit late. What's he said?
carnivalesm
Basically saying they all deserve it cause they "aren't even people." And that the "god emperor of the Philippines" is on the right path.
Bushwookie825
What a knob
questionableanswers
So a pro-trump-troll jumping on another bandwagon.
Ksjjjdnaja
A: he isn't president. B: all the claims he endorses this slaughter are by the Filipino president.
GodEmperorOfImgur
Wait, President Duterte isn't president? What the hell are you talking about?
Mycologics
Maybe it's like a #notmypresident thing?
Ksjjjdnaja
Thought he meant Trump, idk why but oh well.
Nobahdi
Goddamn son, you are stupid.
Ksjjjdnaja
Cause I commented at 1am after a long day? I too sometimes feel big and bad commenting anonymously, friend. +1 for you.
GodEmperorOfImgur
No, he's talking about Duterte, who DID have 3600 killed on his orders in the first 100 days of his presidency.
Ksjjjdnaja
Which is beyond fucked up.
HailToUltron
"You're doing a great job! Keep up the good work!" - Donald Trump
JuanMoreNight
This guy was actually being called "Asian Trump" before he was elected if I recall correctly
TheMightyPIKE
If thats not a sign we're fucked, idk what else it will take
Kasador
The audacity of some of these comments. I understand drugs are bad, but murdering people in the streets is not the answer.>
Kasador
ARandomHelljumper
Hell, considering the new Philippine president is siding with China, maybe the CIA can do something productive with a little wet work.
Markzrithym
I'm from Philippines, you decide killed by drug addicts or killed the drug addicts?
Kasador
I'm sorry, I don't understand your question?
Markzrithym
I would rather see killed them by vigilant, instead killing innocent people because they're high in cocaine.
Markzrithym
Are you going to wait someone you know to be a victim of these monsters?
Markzrithym
What I'm trying to say, there is no other way to stop these drug users or drug lords only to be killed, these addicts killed innocent people
Kasador
But that doesn't justify innocent people being executed by plain clothed police.
Markzrithym
Yes, it's not justifiable, but how would you stop these monster for killing innocent people? Raping 3 month old baby? etc...
Markzrithym
Those are horrible crimes
Jeronimooo
When the drug war becomes a war on users and diminishes human life to nothing...worse thing is Trump supports this...Bone chilling.
Begotten
What are you talking about
KunFayyaKun
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/12/03/duterte-during-phone-call-trump-praised-my-drug-war-as-right-way/
FiddlerofSticks
god damn, idk what worse, that Trump supports this or that I knew that he would...
Markzrithym
You don't know shit so STFU! I'm from Philippines, you decide killed by drug addicts or killed the drug addicts?
damspam
You may know your country better than I could, but I can promise you these tactics will improve nothing and leave only pain
Markzrithym
You don't know shit so STFU! I'm from Philippines, you decide killed by drug addicts or killed the drug addicts?
amhildreth
Read the entire article. This is one of the most horrid things I've seen in a long time, but a good dose of realism.
ArchangelArtist
I have a few friends in the Philippines, and they are not sad about Duterte's presidency... On the contrary. Let's see how it rolls?
questionableanswers
The fact that one signs up for an official drug-treatment-program just to have a killsquad sent after him is maybe the most disturbing.
MarkGuy
I'll just keep on living my blissfully ignorant life thank you
Spankolina
-1
jdmew
It's like Only God Forgives. The Ryan Gosling movie, but for real.
circlebreaker
That's what I was thinking originally... like, where's Duterte's Asian short sword FFS? It's not a spot-on match, but very similar...
forgetthisnoise
It's really bad. I worry a lot about my brother in law. He's a good kid but very social and in a dance group. I worry one of them will 1
forgetthisnoise
Do something to bring down suspicion on the whole group.
BalfMalark
A wonderful piece of journalism about a series of despicable events. I used to work for a company whose H.O was manila, i had no idea >
TitaniumMonkeyBalls
Trump likes Duterte. Imagine being an immigrant in the US right now, especially an illegal one. This could get very real here, very soon.
KeisatsuOtaku
I think you got it backwards.
TitaniumMonkeyBalls
And you probably think sharks are more dangerous to humans than humans are to sharks. Immigrants have way more to fear than you do my friend
Fahargo
And retarded liberals like Castro and socialism. And nothing dramatic ever happens.
Bruhbeans
Yeah get of breitbart mate, i'm a socialist and proponent of equal rights (education, healthcare, min. wage). Castro is a authoritarian 1
BHPaperstacks
This is what I love, all of a sudden according to the conservatives Pol Pot, Mao and Stalin were "liberals".
Bruhbeans
communist.
BigSecksi
As armed as we are as a nation this kind of vigilante shit would turn into gun fights real damn fast. I can't see it happening here at all.
Kehy
The Punisher is popular for a reason. People won't just lay down and let shit like that noticeably happen here
BigSecksi
It isn't a bad argument for the 2nd amendment either. This is exactly the shit it prevents.
Kehy
The problem is when people don't notice it happening, or don't think it's important enough to worry about. There's still plenty that goes on
javjav
To be sure, considering the heavy militarization of american police lately, I'd be morbidly intrigued about how this would pan out.
SolictedDickPicsUponRequest
This is why the 2nd amendment is so important. It has nothing to do with hunting.
BigSecksi
Exactly! It is stories like this that should drive the point home. Crazy shit like this doesn't happen to armed populations.
DrKriegersClone
Crazy shit like this also doesn't happen to many, many other developed countries without so many guns.
Sprixxen
If it were well regulated militias I'd agree. That was a good idea as protection from a tyrannical government. As it is...
Sprixxen
You're deluding yourself if you think you can hold the government death squads at bay w/ your home arsenal. It's a fantasy.
DreadPiratePoptart
Drug use is a medical issue, not criminal. Unlike what these fuckheads are doing. Why do ppl have to suck so much?
Markzrithym
Yes, you're right, but these drug users kills innocent people.
Markzrithym
I'm from Philippines, you decide killed by drug addicts or killed the drug addicts?
DreadPiratePoptart
Ummm, neither? If someone's being violent then that's one thing, but just going after anyone that uses drugs is not a solution.
DreadPiratePoptart
Granted, I know I'm very ignorant to the entirety of the situation, but there's gotta be a better way :/
DefyingGrace
I am ethnically filipino, and I am disgusted by the president's actions to control drugs. That man should be put to justice. He is the crook
Markzrithym
I think your mind is CROOK like the Aquinos, AM I RIGHT? Blockhead?
rmel0
@DefyingGrace favorite folder :)
bluemeaniesarecoming
You know what's sad. Most of the fucking sheep here think he's amazing. Cult of personality pulling the wool over their eyes.
TheKingOfConquerors
I imagine it's because many of the people are the poorest of society. Easier for people to not care when it's people on the fringe.
droptableusers
Another "War on Drugs" that won't work. And this one is being fought by vigilantes.
GandalfUnicorn
The things about "War on Drugs" movements is that they're always perpetrated unethically against the people, war on people.
Rayz901
Vigilantes don't know personal information. This seems like an inside job. But whatever it's horrid and shady as fuck.
DrKriegersClone
At this point, I doubt they care if they're even getting real druggies. It's just murder someone over a neighbourhood grudge, and 1/
DrKriegersClone
2/ justify it afterwards (if anyone even asks) by making the accusation they were a dealer.
liam33
its not a war its more like a culling
saltymcgee
Not necessarily just vigilantes, his cops participate as well
berz
I disagree, they are taking a drug riddled country and turning it around with total control. Give it some years and we will see a new Dubai
ohmygodtheysaidnewzealand
except the vigilante is the president
SirLags
The issue is that a majority of people who feel that way haven't been there and don't entirely understand how things work there 1/?
SirLags
My niece had her forearm broken when she walked around on her phone. Another of my family members saw a guy just straight up kill her dog 2/
SirLags
My niece was 11 at the time, the grown man did not care. My family member who saw their pet they knew their entire life was only 7. 3/
SirLags
My family down there is all for peace and religion, but everything is so fucked there that people like this president as people fear him 4/
SirLags
Criminals turned themselves in and ones who switched markets just extended their time slightly. When a majority of prisons are run by the 5/
MotodoggyR6
but it is working tho. all my friends are saying philippines is getting peaceful and no one is scared of going out.
Sebastan
Well now you just replace the criminal with the police death squad. Soon it'll be their turn to hold you up.
ukalliq
And Mussolini made the trains run on time, amirite?
Sebastan
People don't often think that this will happen to them, but it's a slippery slope of what duterte will declare is punishable next.
Sebastan
This would be 'good' in an evil way if the police were perfect. But they're not, and now you can kill someone and just blame drugs.
Sebastan
He's just legalize murder, as you can always shoot and blame, whether it was his intention or not.
Mactator
Actually, so far it's working. Crime's gone down massively and most people in the Philippines support Durete. Brazil's been doin' the same
sirWeinerbottom
Yea, perfectly working if we don't account the murders perpetrated by vigilante......
Holinyx05
heh check your facebook. mine is filled with "i'm glad those thugs are dead, kill them all" and i'm in the US talking about US crime.
Mactator
Nope, we're counting those because that's what the people want and is, again, a key part of it working. Plus, Brazil's been doing that too.
Mavgurian
So, if enough Germans (once more) want all refugees to be burned at the stake ... we can point at Brazil for reference?
Mactator
Because persecuting criminals is totally analogous to genocide, hate crimes and racism.
Mactator
It just amazes me that people are complaining about this now when Brazil has done it for years and the Filipinos want it themselves.
Wuhaa
It hasn't been done like this before though. They are targeting users and sellers. And they don't follow morals when dealing with them.
ChrisNoire
This is bad.Situations like this are liable to escalate to more chaotic complicatio, most especially when the targeted begin to unionize.1/2
ChrisNoire
From the article they are not only targeting users but also former users; "kill or be killed" would most likely become a reponse to this.
FerrousBuehler
It most certainly has been done before
Wuhaa
Where? Colombia? Even they didn't go for the drug users.
CheetoStains
Pablo Escobar
hufwungpu
Vigilante justice circumvents the due process, and is ethically and morally wrong
asm80dfa8sdfj
So I take it you don't like comics?
Nize426
asm80dfa8sdfj
What?