Philippines: ‘Bloody Sunday’ killings show Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal presidency isn’t letting up in his last full year

The Sunday slayings of nine activists by Philippine security forces show that in his last full year in office, President Rodrigo Duterte is not letting up on the killing spree he started five years ago.In what is now being called “Bloody Sunday”, police and soldiers raided the offices and homes of community organisers in provinces near Manila. They shot dead nine of them – including a married couple – and arrested six.The authorities said caches of weapons and grenades were found, and that the…