The Philippine president-elect said Tuesday he will pay bounties to police or military officials who capture suspected drug lords "dead or alive," adding that there is enough reward money to leave "100 persons dead." Rodrigo Duterte said he will pay up to 3 million pesos ($64,000) for every drug lord that officials turn in, adding that the bounties would be financed by left-over campaign contributions, AP reported. The targets, he said, will include anti-narcotic agents who are secretly involved in the drug trade and jailed crime suspects who manage to continue their drug dealing. He said only crime suspects who put up a resistance would be killed. "I'm not saying that you kill them but the order is dead or alive," Duterte said in a televised news conference in Davao, the southern city where he has been mayor for many years. Duterte, 71, whose six-year term starts June 30, won an overwhelming election victory on a promise to eradicate crime and corruption in the country within six months, a feat police officials say will be difficult to achieve. He told the news conference that the anti-drug crackdown is starting "now." A former prosecutor, Duterte said he stressed his seriousness in his anti-drug campaign to an official who will be appointed to a law enforcement agency. "I said, 'I'll put you there on one condition, that if you have an agent who is messing around with drugs and it comes to a fight, I want you to kill him personally,'" Duterte said, adding he promised the official he would get the largest bounty if he does that.
