Karapatan secretary general Cristina Palabay called the “new” Oplan Tokhang a “superficial makeover of a policy that has earned public condemnation.”On Monday, the police resumed the controversial anti-drug campaign. “The relaunch of the police and Duterte administration’s Oplan Tokhang, after being suspended twice in 2017, is a tacit admission that there is something fundamentally wrong with these policies regarding the drug war,” she said. The activist leader, moreover, stressed that the PNP’s “gentler” anti-drug campaign will not succeed as long as there are corrupt cops. Oplan Tokhang was suspended earlier following reports of summary killings and other abuses allegedly committed by police officers. The police force was brought back into the fold of the drug war in December 2017 to support the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, which is the lead office in the campaign.

Source: Philippine Star January 30, 2018 10:07 UTC