Crackdown on Filipino Vagrants Echoes Ugly Drug War

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte apparently has extended his “war on drugs” to what are described as tambays, loiterers and vagrants who congregate on city streets in poor neighborhoods to drink beer and talk.

The roundup has alarmed human rights advocates who say they fear the anti-loitering drive could also spark extrajudicial killings.

So far, acco…