Tokhang Sa Tokhang
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Tokhang Sa Tokhang
We are taking stock of the war on drugs in the Philippines.We talk to families, community workers, researchers, artists, church leaders, and government officials to do our own "katok" (knocking) and "hangyo" (inquiring). But beyond the bloody campaign under President Rodrigo Duterte, beyond calling...
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Criminogenic: How our prisons worsen the War on Drugs
In this episode we speak with a drug suspect working as a paralegal - in a dysfunctional and corrupted correctional system that tends to breed more cr...
‘Wounded healers’: This is what rehabilitation sounds like
Let’s get to know the stories of drug users who were able to recover when thousands of others could not. As thousands are killed for alleged drug link...
'Pusher': Listen to good people falling into bad things
Why do decent but desperate Filipinos fall not only into using drugs, but actually peddling? And how do good intentions - of people, and of government...
The weaponization of 'ADIK'
It was a four-letter word long before Duterte. Over decades - and certainly over Tokhang - "addict" has been invoked with less and less nuance, with g...
The Drug Wars before Duterte
Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs was the bloodiest, but it was not the exception. It was the culmination of a problematic, simplistic paradigm that was...
Healing without justice
For those left behind by victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, there is a need to move on without waiting for justice. Civil society groups have...
The exhumation
The body of Kian delos Santos was exhumed five years after his murder, along with others killed under former president Rodrigo Duterte's War on Drugs....
Out this Friday: Tokhang sa Tokhang season two
In the first season of Tokhang sa Tokhang, we checked in on the families, communities, sectors, and institutions gravely impacted by President Rodrigo...
Episode 6: Barangay, Nanay
Kumusta ang mga nanay? Kumusta ang mga barangay?
President Duterte's War on Drugs was launched to save our families and rescue our communities....
Episode 5: Bata! Bata! Pulis! Pulis!
Four years into the War on Drugs, the public has serious concerns over the conduct of policemen and the troubling number of deaths. Meanwhile, childre...
Episode 4: The Storytellers
Kumustahin naman natin ang media—the journalists and the environment in which they must cover one of the Philippines' bloodiest chapters in decades.
Episode 3: Rap Battle
Artists and musicians have always reflected history. They struggle to capture the spirit of the times. Their images and words chronicle not so much th...
Episode 2: What Price are We Willing to Pay?
30,000 "deaths under investigation", 5,500 killed in "legitimate" anti-drug operations. For what, and at what else's cost?
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Episode 1: Kumusta na ang Numbers sa War on Drugs?
Let's start with the basics. "Four million drug users." How did the government get to that number?
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Introducing... Tokhang sa Tokhang
A special series where we check in on President Rodrigo Duterte's still ongoing war on drugs. We, too, do our own knocking and inquiring. Our own 'kat...