Manila: Ex-Philippine leader Benigno Aquino joined thousands of people on the streets of Manila as protests broke out against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs.
Demonstrators amassed near the national police headquarters, with some warning the Duterte crackdown foreshadowed a repeat of the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship, which was toppled in a bloodless “People Power” revolution 31 years ago.
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