Rebecca Ratcliffe, South-east Asia correspondent, The Guardian, Sun 26 Feb 2023 Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of ‘a madman’ in the exhumed remains of young Filipinos it was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began to investigate the merciless…
By: Zacarian Sarao -INQUIRER.net / July 06, 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Philippine security forces, particularly the Philippine National Police (PNP), have continued “perpetrating extrajudicial killings” and “obstructing justice” in connection with the probe of the Department of Justice (DOJ) into the Duterte administration’s drug war. This was among the conclusions of the Second Report of…
Jun 14, 2021, Lian Buan Manila, Philippines The DOJ drug war review is ‘not comprehensive, nor transparent,’ says Rise Up, an organization of relatives of those killed in the bloody war on drugs A day before International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda retires, a group of relatives of those killed in the bloody drug…
By: DJ Yap, Krixia Subingsubing, Philippine Daily Inquirer / December 16, 2020 Critics of President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday said International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s report that there was a “reasonable basis to believe” that he and his subordinates committed crimes against humanity in the bloody war on drugs meant they could soon…
Franco Luna (Philstar.com) – December 10, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — To claim that extrajudicial killings and abuses linked to the government’s “war on drugs” is just a narrative peddled by the political opposition ignores the experiences of the victims of these abuses, a Catholic priest critical of the killings said Thursday. Fr. Flavie Villanueva, SVD, in a…