Manila, Dec 8 (EFE).- The Philippines National Bureau of Investigation has begun looking into the death certificates of victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” that appear to have been wrongly recorded as having died a natural death. Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said the NBI is studying nine cases of death certificates …
MANILA 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
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.
Duterte’s drug war: Lies and death certificates a photo essay May 25, 2021 | 05:00:00 PM
BY DADA GRIFON
Grifon uncovers four stories of EJK victims, all of which were treated with disrespect until their last breath as their families are forced to accept “pneumonia” as the victim’s cause of death. Funeral parlors and policemen allegedly make business out of these cases of vigilante killings, leaving the victims and their families helpless in searching for justice.
Even in death, the State treats victims of extrajudicial killings as mere “collateral damage” in the Duterte administration’s bloody anti-drug war. The families of the victims choose to remember their lost loved ones with dignity, something that was denied of them when their deaths were covered up by falsified death certificates.