saluting him as the head of DOGE, with Musk smiling down on the president from the visitors’ gallery. Yet government lawyers have argued in court that
The fighters stopped and checked the small vehicle carrying Issack and Hassan from Ufurow, then let them pass for their three-day journey here.“They didn’t want us,” Issack said.
A Somali family that arrived waits to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)A Somali family that arrived waits to be given a spot to settle at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)Somali women wait their turn to collect water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Somali women wait their turn to collect water at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)The men know that as blind and elderly they are among the most vulnerable, used to being left behind even in normal times. While the camp growing around them is roughly organized around the communities that people fled, and Ufurow residents remain their neighbors, the frame of reference has shattered.
“The problem is, we can’t see who’s here from home or how many of them,” Issack said. It will take time to build a mental map of their surroundings, of whose child wanders by, wailing, or who might be coughing in the hut a few meters away.
“We don’t know what’s happening around us,” he said, an extreme of the sentiment the thousands of displaced people in this town are feeling, too.Policemen check the gun recovered from one of two unidentified drug suspects after they were shot dead by police while trying to evade a checkpoint in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)
Policemen check the gun recovered from one of two unidentified drug suspects after they were shot dead by police while trying to evade a checkpoint in Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)With prisons already crowded and a justice system so broken that drug cases could take a decade, Duterte argued successfully for another, quicker way. It was modeled in part on a brutal anti-crime campaign he spearheaded while mayor of the southern city of Davao, where he rode a Harley-Davidson and cultivated a New Sheriff in Town image that earned him nicknames like “Duterte Harry” and “The Punisher.”
The campaign was fought not just by state security forces, but by motorcycle-riding assassins known as the “Davao Death Squads” who massacred more than 1,000 people. Human Rights Watch says the grim wave of extrajudicial killing was directed by active duty police and former officers. Only a handful of perpetrators were convicted.After Duterte was sworn into office June 30, he directed police to launch a massive new anti-drug operation nationwide.