More than 100,000 people in Metro Manila have been arrested or taken into custody by the Philippine National Police less than two months after President Duterte ordered a crackdown on street loiterers, a less deadly campaign than the war on drugs.
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A group of youth activists dared President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday to bring his “anti-tambay” campaign to Congress and posh villages to disprove criticism that the government’s crackdown targeted only the poor.
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In just a matter of five days, Metro Manila police have arrested more than 5,000 “tambays” or nighttime idlers in the capital.
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