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Families of Duterte s drug war victims: We will tell our story every day

Patricia Evangelista, author of critically-acclaimed 'Some People Need Killing,' says there would have been no book were it not for the trust and courage of drug war victims' families to tell their stories

A pathologist, a priest and a hunt for justice in the Philippines

The same day Aurora Blas found her husband’s body in a Manila funeral home in 2016 with a bullet hole in his head, she signed a document provided by the mortician saying pneumonia had killed him. That decision has haunted her.

Philippines drug war victims land in leased graves that expire

The indignity of Philippines homeless dead: leased graves that expire

The indignity of Philippines homeless dead: leased graves that expire David Pierson, AIE BALAGTAS SEE © (Aie Balagtas See / For The Times) A woman visits the tombs of her father and her brother at Navotas Public Cemetery in Manila. The pair were killed in the Philippines crackdown on drugs. (Aie Balagtas See / For The Times) There isn’t much in the way of dignity for the dead in Navotas Public Cemetery. Remains are stacked in cinder-block holes five stories high. Their openings are cemented shut and painted in blue, yellow or pink pastels. Those whose families can’t afford a plaque have their names scrawled in black ink. On days when the humidity and breeze conspire, the stench of decomposing bodies hangs over grounds strewn with trash and uncollected bones.

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