Drug war Timeline

Drug war Begins. Project Double Barrel was launched.

Shabu weighing 180K in grams was discovered in Claveria Cagayan

A shabu lab and in Philamlife Village, Las Pinas and a chemical warehouse in Paranaque city were dismantled by PDEA.

701 Marijuana cultivators and dealers in CAR surrendered within the first week

PDEA destroyed P 1.77 B worth of drugs by burning them.

Chinese national was caught smuggling P 5 M worth of shabu through Cebu International Airport

Mico Tan was killed ina PNP operation in Valenzuela City.

Johaira Macabuat, former mayor of Maguing, Lanao del Sur and the “Drug Queen of the South”, was arrested in Cagayan de Oro City.

Over P6 M worth of marijuana was destroyed by combined elements of PDEA, PNP, and Philippine Army (PA) in a marijuana plantation site in Maguindanao.

PDEA finishes destroying P 107.48 M worth of Marijuana in Tinglayan, Kalinga.

PDEA seized P 106 M worth of shabu in NCR.

Melvin Odicta Sr., suspected to be a drug lord, and his wife Merriam Odicta was killed by a vigilante the day after they surrendered to the authorities.

PDEA destroys P 3 M equipment worth of equipment and substances used to make drugs.

Guang Ping Voyage No. 1719S arrives at Manila with P6.4 B worth of Shabu

Richard Tan informs Bureau of Customs of the shipment. The source is apparently Zhang Xiaohai

Bureau of Customs investigates warehouse without the PDEA representatives

Text between Mark Taguba & ‘Tita Nani’ shown to the investigating Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, implicating the president’s son

Fatima Daud Baliwan was arrested in a Cotabato city raid which seized P 600K worth of shabu.

PDEA officially received responsibility of the Drug War.

Roel Valcruza Sahiron, drug personality and former soldier, is shot in a PDEA operation in Tagum City

Dhan Usman, a big time pusher, is arrested in Taguig City

Yu Yuk Lai, a ‘shabu queen’, is detained at the Correctional Institute for Women with her daughter

Two Nigerian Nationals with P 8 M worth of shabu is arrested in Kawit, Cavite

Shabu was discovered in scrap lifter

Department of Public Works and Highways employee was arrested in a PDEA buy-bust operation

Magandia Drug Syndicate members were arrested

Lito Belandres, alleged drug lord, was killed in a shootout against the police.

Sherwin Bautista, an alleged drug lord, was killed in front of a school

33 people were killed on this day

239 were confirmed to have died in police operations. Death rate was calculated to be at 11 per day.

30 people died on this day

Drug Lord Edgar Alvarez was killed in a CIDG raid on the Abuyog Penal Colony

5 year old Danica Mae was killed by the police during an attempt to kill her grandfather

Edgar Matobato claimed he was a member of the Davao Death Squad, bringing the case to the nation's attention.

100th day of the way. There had been a total of 1278 deaths.

Jee Ick Joo was kidnapped and murdered by the police in Camp Crame

Samsudin Dimaukom was killed in a shootout against the police

Rolando Espinosa, father of Kerwin Espinosa, was killed in a jail cell from an alleged shootout

3841 reported vigilante killings

5882 had died from the war. 2041 were killed in police operations

5927 confirmed deaths. 2086 were from police operations while 3841 were killed by vigilantes

The Jee Ick Joo case was revealed to the public, sparking outrage

All police involvement in anti-drug operatons were susoended

7080 deaths since the beginning of the war. 2555 were from police operations, 3603 from unknown assailants and 902 were investigated and concluded

Former DDS member Arturo Lascanas finally reveals involvement of Duterte with the DDS.

Project Double Barrel Reloaded is launched

162 killed since Project Double Barrel Reloaded was launched

Proposal to lower age of criminal responsibility was rejected

Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and fourteen other people were killed in a supposed anti-drug raid in the house of the Parojinogs in Ozamiz City.

In Bulacan, 32 suspects were killed in one night, famously called the “One Time,Big Time” operations.

17 y/o Kian Loyd delos Santos was shot and killed by police officers in Caloocan.

19 y/o Carl Arnaiz was shot and killed by police officers in Caloocan.

CCTV footage shows several men clearly not dealing drugs and engaging in shootouts with police officers, but instead were seemingly executed.

20322 deaths, 3967 from police operations and 16355 DUIs

Oplan Tokhang was relaunched

Albayalde became the PNP Chief

22000 deaths were considered under investigation

Antonio Halili is assassinated

Kian's Case is resolved

Mark Taguba and others charged with violating tariff code during P 6.4 B Shabu Shipment

Nicanor Faeldon, former Bureau of Customs Comissioner, was made head of Bureau of Customs

President admitted that extrajudicial killings existed in his administration

A "one time big time" police operation occurred in Cebu, killing 3 and arresting 75

Families filed a case against the President before the ICC

QC Barangays' petition against the house to house drug test was once again denied.

TRAIN law was implemented

2018 National Budget was officially approved

KARAPATAN submitted more cases to Agnes Callamard

Former DDB chief Dionisio Santiago admitted that the Mega Rehab Center was a mistake

Dionisio Santiago resigned over his remarks about the Mega Rehab Center

Various Human Rights legal groups filed a petition to declare the war unconstitutional

PNP launched rehab program Life After Tokhang

Centerlaw filed petition to grand residents in San Andres Bukid the writ of Amparo

South Triangle and Payatas' petition againts House to House Testing was denied by QC Court

Senate investigation into Shabu Shipments ended after 9 hearings

South Triangle and Payatas filed a petition to end House-to-House drug tests

Batanes was declared a drug free province

Bogo City was declared drug free, the first city in Visayas to be declared as such

Paulyn Ubian, former secretary of Health, admitted only 179 patients were in the Mega Rehab facility

Senator Lacson revealed the "tara list" of the Bureau of Customs

Karapatan submits 47 cases to UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard

The President admits the existence of a Davao Death Squad but claimed only use them only against the NPA

Edgar Matobato submitted to the authorities and faced bailable murder charges

Arrest warrant against Matabato on a kidnapping was released

The temporary protection order received by Efren Morillo and the family of the fellow victims was upgraded to a permanent protection order

Senator de Lima submitted to the authorities after an arrest warrant against her was released the day before

The President admitted that he knew Lascanas

Efren Morillo and the families of his fellow victims were granted the writ of Amparo and a temporary restraining order against the police that performed the operation

Accusations of involvement in the drug raid against Sen. Leila de Lima began.

The Mega Rehabilitation Center in Nueva Ecija fully opened