Deaths, lies, and statistics

The death of one is a tragedy; the death of millions a statistic, or so goes a quote often misattributed to Joseph Stalin. But what of 5,281 drug war deaths in the Philippines from July 2016 to February 2019, the first half of Rodrigo Duterte’s presidency? Last week, a Stalinesque adjective used by the former […]... Keep on reading: Deaths, lies, and statistics