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FACTS:

The daughter of a late British peer has been shot dead in

the Philippines in what appears to be a vigilante-style gang hit
in the countrys bloody crackdown on drugs.

Maria Aurora Moynihan, 45, was left in the street in the

capital Manila on 10 September, police said. Her attackers
propped up a cardboard sign against her body which said: Drug
pusher to the celebrities. Moynihan was the daughter of the 3rd
Lord Moynihan, a British peer who fled to the Philippines in the
late 1960s following fraud allegations. He ran several brothels
and was allegedly active in drugs trafficking until 1991, when
he died of a stroke. A dual British-Filipino citizen, Maria
Moynihan was also accused of involvement in the narcotics
business. She had been on bail following charges of possession
of illegal drugs in 2013.Witnesses told us they heard a series
of gunshots, and then saw a vehicle leaving the area. They did
not see its license plates, Ch Insp Tito Jay Cuden told Agence
France-Presse.

He said no arrests had been made. Shes considered a drug

personality, he added.

Legal Issue:

Extrajudicial Killings

Effects of the violation of the latter are right:

A. Thousands of potentially innocent people are being

abducted, brutally murdered and then dumped on the streets,
because they were labeled a user or dealer.
B. Though the excessive use of illegal drugs, people killed
in the crackdown are alleged, not necessarily proven, to
be drug dealers and drug addicts.
C. The government abandon due process and the rule of law
D. First of all, there is the moral problem. A government
that acts illegally is self-contradictory. It makes laws,
supposedly enforces laws, but at the same time breaks.
Breaking them. Breaking one set of laws will usually lead
to contempt for all laws. The second concern is
practical. The drugs trade is to be deplored for several
 reasons, not least because it brings misery to millions
of addicts, but also because it represents a state within
the state, a parallel jurisdiction, based not on law as
the arbiter of disputes, but on brute force. The drugs
trade is inherently violent because it is illegal. The
way to tame it is to legalise it.

Political, economic and social issues faced by the individual or

those surrounding the issue:

No due process of law- Political System

Police operations were made majority by armed vigilante
militias.
Pain and suffering to the bereaved family

Conclusion:

At present it should be acknowledged by all that the war on

drugs has cost thousands of lives and has nowhere
succeeded. Since becoming president of the Philippines in June
2016, Rodrigo Duterte has launched a war on drugs that has
resulted in the extrajudicial deaths of thousands of alleged
drug dealers and users across the country. The war on drugs
has received a high level of popular support from across the
class spectrum in the Philippines. Even through some people
are concerned about these deaths, they support him as a
president for his position on other issues.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/19/daughter-of-late-
british-peer-killed-in-philippines-drug-war