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WAR ON THUGS: De Lima prepares to read a statement in the country’s Senate on August 18. She is one of the few politicians to stand up to President Rodrigo Duterte and his crackdown on drug dealers and users.
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LEILA DE LIMA is sitting at a square table with some of her political allies in a Manila hotel. Two aides stand guard outside the meeting room; they ask that her hotel not be named. “This is my life now,” says de Lima, a human rights advocate and member of the Philippine Senate. “It’s become a nightmare, but I’m getting used to it.”