Scores of children killed in drug war

The cost of war: Protesters at a 2017 vigil in Manila for Kian, whose murder was recorded on video. — Reuters

AT least 129 children have been killed in the Philippines’ four-year war on drugs, most by police or allied assailants, but they may only represent a fraction of the toll, activist groups said.

Minors have been directly targeted, punished as proxies or victims of mistaken identity or “collateral damage”, they said in a report released yesterday titled “How could they do this to my child?”