Euan Raffle
@euanraffle.bsky.social
Lecturer in Security Studies @mybcu.bsky.social. PhD from @polisatleeds.bsky.social. Research state violence, extrajudicial killing, human rights & Southeast Asia. He/Him.
As well as bringing accountibility for Duterte and some semblance of justice for the families of victims, hopefully the ICC proceedings will forever dispel the notion that the #warondrugs can be resolved by yet more violence.
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
As well as bringing accountibility for Duterte and some semblance of justice for the families of victims, hopefully the ICC proceedings will forever dispel the notion that the #warondrugs can be resolved by yet more violence.
Cumulatively, this research hopefully highlights the utter hypocrisy of Duterte bemoaning his 'extrajudicial rendition' to the ICC (especially given that the Philippines was signed up to the Rome Statute until 2018, two years into the war on drugs!)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Rodrigo Duterte appears at ICC hearing in The Hague by video link
Allegations of crimes against humanity laid out against former Philippines president over his deadly ‘war on drugs’
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Cumulatively, this research hopefully highlights the utter hypocrisy of Duterte bemoaning his 'extrajudicial rendition' to the ICC (especially given that the Philippines was signed up to the Rome Statute until 2018, two years into the war on drugs!)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Finally, my paper in International Political Sociology argues that despite invoking the threat that illegal drugs posed to children, Duterte simultaneously presented them in biopolitical terms as 'dangerous becomings', who constituted a threat to society: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
“If You Destroy Our Children, I Will Kill You”: Biopolitical Childhood in Southeast Asia’s War on Drugs
Abstract. This article explores how the war on drugs in Southeast Asia upholds the protection of the young as a key justification for extrajudicial killing
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Finally, my paper in International Political Sociology argues that despite invoking the threat that illegal drugs posed to children, Duterte simultaneously presented them in biopolitical terms as 'dangerous becomings', who constituted a threat to society: doi.org/10.1093/ips/...
Following this, my paper in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social proposes an alternative typology of extrajudicial killing in the Philippines, where 'state vigilantism' represents an effort to present state orchestrated killings as the product of genuine vigilantism. doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
Redirecting
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103114
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Following this, my paper in @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social proposes an alternative typology of extrajudicial killing in the Philippines, where 'state vigilantism' represents an effort to present state orchestrated killings as the product of genuine vigilantism. doi.org/10.1016/j.dr...
In a 2019 paper with @adriangallagher.bsky.social and Zain Maulana, we argue that the war on drugs in the Philippines clearly constitutes crimes against humanity. doi.org/10.1080/0951...
Failing to fulfil the responsibility to protect: the war on drugs as crimes against humanity in the Philippines
The article provides the first substantive analysis of the war on drugs in the Philippines under the Responsibility to Protect. It develops in two stages. First, it argues that the war on drugs con...
doi.org
March 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
In a 2019 paper with @adriangallagher.bsky.social and Zain Maulana, we argue that the war on drugs in the Philippines clearly constitutes crimes against humanity. doi.org/10.1080/0951...