Hope Pulitzer Will Put Focus On Manila: Reporter

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  A Hong Kong-based Pulitzer prize winner hopes her work will bring attention to Duterte's ongoing bloody crackdown on drugs. File photo: AP

Clare Baldwin talks to RTHK's Mike Weeks

A Hong Kong-based winner of the Pulitzer Prize said on Wednesday that she hoped the world renowned journalism award would help bring back global attention to the subject she worked on – the ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines.

Clare Baldwin and two others from Reuters were jointly awarded the Pulitzer for international reporting, for a series of stories they wrote about President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal crackdown on drugs that has claimed hundreds of lives.

In a statement announcing the award, the Pullitzer organisers had said the work of Baldwin, Andrew Marshall and Manuel Mogato had “demonstrated how police in the president’s ‘drug war’ have killed with impunity and consistently been shielded from prosecution".

Baldwin, who is now on assignment in Bangladesh, told RTHK's Mike Weeks that media attention needs to be put on the subject, as killings in the name of ending the drugs trade are still taking place in the Philippines.