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Bulatlat.com | Features | Nation | NewsDrawing strength from one another | Mothers vow to continue fight for justice
Purisima Dacumos and Lorie Pasco during the Confessio Peccati in Sampaloc, Manila. (Photo by A.M. Umil/Bulatlat) “We fight not only for our sons and husbands. We do this for the killings to stop. So that there will be no more victims.” Read also: ‘There is hope’ | Mother of victim of anti-illegal drug ops welcomes…
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700 activists slapped with trumped-up charges, a crackdown on dissenters – Barug Katungod Mindanao
Around 700 community leaders and activists are now slapped with trumped-up charges, an “indicative of a sweeping crackdown on political dissenters,” according to human rights group Barug Katungod Mindanao.
