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Detained in Quezon City Prison in Manila on July 18, 2016. These prisons are now even more overcrowded because of the government's latest efforts to rid the streets of vagrants. (Noel Celis / AFP / Getty Images)
Rodrigo Duterte, the self-fashioned leader of the Philippines, has a new target.
The strong Trump-admirer, known for leading an anti-drug crackdown that claimed more than 12,000 lives, goes against the "tambays" or loafers of his country. In the past three weeks, more than 11,000 drums have been thrown into jail for dragging on the streets, Al Jazeera reported. According to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Duterte said on June 13 in a room full of policemen that "if there are people staying there lazily, they should go home." If they refuse, Duterte added, "I'm busy with it, tie their hands together and throw them in [the river]." Shortly after these remarks, the President said that he was not going to Had not asked the police to bring people to hang out (which was decriminalized in the Philippines in 2012), but that it is sometimes forbidden to drink or "make a living" in the street. [19659004] But sometimes people have nowhere to go.
In Tondo, for example, Manila's largest slum Many live in small 50-square-foot shacks made of zinc roofs, blocks of wood and black tarpaulins, with little indoor space and limited access to public spaces such as shopping malls and parks. "Richard Heydarian, professor of political science in Manila, explained that residents tended to spend their time in the street, earning them the name of "tambays", an adaptation of the word a "few weeks were probably f he added to the outside of their shantytowns because they were looking for errands that could bring them a dollar more or find a place to cool off from." temperature of 80 degrees, he added.
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Residents stand on the roof of a building Newly built condominiums are seen in the background of Tondo District, Metro Manila, on March 11, 2018. (Dondi Tawatao / Reuters )
Since the order, drums have been introduced or smoked on the street and others for public nudity or to violate local curfew laws, reported on Manila Standard. But in many cases, according to Heydarian, the crime committed is not immediately clear.
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Genesis Argoncillo, a 25-year-old Filipino, was arrested outside his home on June 15. Four days later, he died in custody at the Quezon City Police Department, stirring outrage across the country. Last week, dozens of people gathered outside the police headquarters in Quezon City, waving placards and buckets of animal blood to protest the anti-loitering directive.
Authorities say that Argoncillo has been taken hostage and is fighting with his neighbors. Others say that the young man was arrested for not wearing a shirt. The circumstances surrounding his death are similarly disturbing. At first, the police said that Argoncillo was "mentally unstable" and that he died as a result of his own actions, and then later stated that he had been mutilated to death by d & # 39; 39, other prisoners .
The family of Argoncillo disputed this claim, stating that the young man had no mental health problems and was more likely beaten to death by police officers. A copy of the death certificate of Argoncillo obtained by ABS-CBN shows that he died of blunt trauma to the head, neck and chest. The QCPD also told reporters that at Station 4, where Argoncillo was standing, there were more than 130 inmates, although the facility was only designed to accommodate 6. [19659011] WATCH: After the death of Genesis "Tisoy" Argoncillo, various A group led by SANLAKAS organizes a protest rally in front of the headquarters of the NCP in Quebec to condemn the repression of the PNP against "Tambays" or stragglers. | via @jpsoriano pic.twitter.com/qmejt3OcFE
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