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Timeline of the Philippine drug war.

2016

 * June 30 – Rodrigo R. Duterte is inagurated as the 16th president of the Philippines. In his speeches, he urged civilians to fight and kill potential drug suspects.
 * July 3 – Philippine National Police announced they had killed 30 alleged drug dealers since Duterte was sworn in as president on June 30.
 * August 2 – Albuera mayor Rolando Espinosa and his son Kerin Espinosa, both linked to drug trafficking, surrenders.
 * August 3 – PNP had a shootout with twelve armed men with alleged links to Espinosa in Barangay Benolho in Albuera. Six of the men were killed, and 237 g of shabu (methamphetamine) worth ₱1.9 million, along with some firearms, were seized.
 * August 25 – Duterte releases a drug matrix showing the structure of drug trafficking operations at the New Bilibid Prison and identified the two former top officials of the Department of Justice, the former provincial governor and board member of Pangasinan, and the former Bureau of Corrections director as being involved in the Bilibid narcotics trade.
 * September 15 – Edgar Matobato, an alleged member of the Davao Death Squad surrenders and confesses about the group's activities and Duterte's participation.
 * September 19 - Leila de Lima, Duterte's most staunch rival, is ousted from her position heading the Senate committee.
 * September 28 – A riot erupted inside Building 14 at New Bilibid Prison. Initial reports from acting Bureau of Corrections director Rolando Asuncion said that one inmate witnessed three other convicts, namely Peter Co, Tony Co and Vicente Sy, using methamphetamine moments before the riot started. Tony Co was stabbed and killed.
 * October 18 – Jesus Tulin, alleged hitman of the Espinosas, was killed in a rest house together with his wife in Barangay Talisayan.
 * October 28 – Datu Saudi Ampatuan Mayor Samsudin Dimaukom and nine others, including his five bodyguards, were killed during an anti-illegal drug operation in Makilala, North Cotabato. According to police, the group were heavily armed and opened fire on police, who found sachets of methamphetamine at the scene. No police were injured. Dimaukom was among the drug list named by Duterte on August 7; he had immediately surrendered, and then returned to Datu Saudi Ampatuan.
 * October 29 – Drug suspect Fernando Balagbis was killed while detained in Baybay City Jail.
 * November 5 – Rolando Espinosa, who had been detained at Baybay City Sub-Provincial Jail for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, was killed in what was described as a shootout inside his jail cell with personnel from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).

2017

 * January 4 – Sputnik gang member Randy Lizardo shot and killed policeman PO1 Enrico Domingo in Tondo. Domingo, together with other PNP officers, were conducting a buy-bust operation inside Lizardo's home.
 * March 11 – Duterte issued an executive order creating the Inter-agency Committee on Anti-illegal Drugs (ICAD), composed of 21 government entities, headed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), tasked to lead the fight against illegal drugs.
 * July 30 – Reynaldo Parojinog, the mayor of Ozamiz City, was killed along with 14 others, including his wife Susan, in a dawn raid at around 2:30 am on his home in San Roque Lawis.
 * August 16-18 – Three teenagers, Kian delos Santos, Carl Arnaiz and Reynaldo de Guzman, were killed in anti-drug operations in Caloocan, Metro Manila.
 * August 23 – 5-year-old student named Danica May Garcia was killed by a stray bullet coming from unidentified gunmen in Dagupan during an anti-drug operation. Another minor, 4-year old Skyler Abatayo of Cebu was killed by a stray bullet through an 'anti-drug operation'.
 * August 24 – Narco-lawyer Rogelio Bato Jr., the attorney of Rolando Espinosa, was killed by unknown assailants in Tacloban together with high school student Angelica Pabonita.
 * October 12 – Duterte announced the transfer of anti-drug operations to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), ending the involvement of the PNP.