Just like how your country tries to establish and promote drug war, my country is also facing the same with our current President. The goal of our government is to lessen, if not totally eradicate, a number of many drug users, drug pushers, drug manufacturers, drug lords, or anyone related to drug abuse. It is because they are not just harming themselves but also harming others who are innocent. If they surrender themselves to the government and promise not to engage in such horrible act again, their lives will be spared but if they won't, they'll really get killed mercilessly like even if they're just walking along the streets, they'll get shot by someone. Yes, there are jails where they can be detained if they won't really stop engaging themselves into drugs but considering the large number of those kinds of people, the jails will really be full and the government will be burdened in feeding and taking care of them inside the prison cell. That requires a lot of budget. Sadly, my country cannot afford much it's because it's still progressing. That's why I heard a lot of rumors saying that it is the reason why government is having this term called extra-judicial killings, killing drug personnel who are not surrendering themselves despite being reminded.
That's how drug war is done in my country. I don't even know what should be my stand about it. There's a part of me that says, "They're also humans. God created them and so no one is righteous enough to take that life away from them." And sometimes also, my mind says, "I guess it's somehow fine so that they can no longer influence others even more to be dependent to drug use. Maybe the criminal rate in the country will lessen if they'll be gone forever." It is very sad. I really don't know what should I feel.
I believe that it's not only me who has these kinds of thoughts whether killing drug personnel is good or bad to obtain peace and order. It is really something that many people are not in favor of.
Right now, our government is still doing it but so far, what I noticed is the killing slows down. Maybe the drug addicts, pushers, drug lords, are cooperating now with the law. I hope so.