Tokhang- The Philippine Drug War Exhibitrion info coming soon!

Tokhang is a word in the Philippine Bisaya meaning “to approach and talk”. It also has become synonymous with the Duterte administration’s deadly war against drugs.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines built his election campaign to be hard against drug pusher and addicts.
Shortly after assuming power, President Duterte launched the the Philippine drug war also called Tokhang, urging members of the public to kill criminals and drug addicts. So far under Duterte’s rule more than 12,000 suspected drug users and dealers, mostly from poor families, have been killed, including 54 children in the first year.

““It all started with a couple of news articles where I had been “night crawling”, following the SOCO-Scene of the Crime Operatives and police, photographing the current affairs and murders that were a direct result of President Duterte’s policy.
There was something so vicious and cynical in this so called drug war. Murders and torture had not only been approved by the highest elected person in the government of the Philippines, but one could also actually hear the president himself bragging about it on his press conferences.” Olof Jarlbro

About the exhibition Tokhang – The Philippine Drug War
The exhibition is produced by Sofia Press Gallery and curator Olympia Daniel. 

Curator / Exhibition producer
Olympia Daniel 

Press contact
Elena Jarlbro