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> ... based on autopsy reports and the police’s own narrative, that PO3 Allan Formilleza, alone, shot 14 bullets into five moving targets, 12 of them hitting the suspects in the head and trunk, all before Formilleza walked away unscathed.
> There are many stories told about that Sunday afternoon in August. Almost every fact is disputed, except for one. Five men were shot. Four men were killed. The fifth man lived.
@bsmall2 @bsmall2
#PhilDrugWar #DrugWarVictims #DuterteDrugWar
> A year after the encounter, the non-profit global organization Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), at the request of CenterLaw, began performing independent forensic analysis on evidence secured by police after the shooting deaths of Marcelo Daa Jr, Jessie Cule, Anthony Comendo, and Rhaffy Gabo.
> PHR shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for critical research on landmine injuries.
https://www.rappler.com/features/newsbreak/investigative/188917-oplan-tokhang-efren-morillo-drug-war-payatas-quezon-city/index.html
#PatriciaEvangelista #Duterte #DuterteDrugWar
The Fifth Man

The police call it an encounter. The survivor says it was an execution. Forensic evidence says he may be right.

Rappler
> When the families of the dead heard of his arrest, they danced with pictures of their lost loved ones, pounded on walls, hugged family and knelt in pews to pray...
> There is Normita, whose epileptic son was killed. She is distraught because she swore that if Mr. Duterte were arrested she would visit his cell every day to make certain he remained behind bars. “How do I even get to the Netherlands?” she asked, sobbing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opinion/duterte-icc-drugs-victims.html
#PatriciaEvangelista #Duterte #DuterteDrugWar
Opinion | Duterte Is Enjoying the Due Process He Denied to His Thousands of Victims

In Duterte’s Philippines, due process was not a right, it was a privilege that was not extended to the victims of his drug war.

The New York Times
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> His daughter, Sara, is now the vice president, having formed a unity ticket with President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. They won elections in 2022 by a landslide. Mr. Duterte might still be free if not for a bitter falling-out between the two family dynasties. Mr. Marcos had previously said his government would not cooperate with the International Criminal Court and allowed the arrest only after their political alliance crumbled.
#SaraDuterte #DuterteICC #DuterteDrugWar
@bsmall2 @bsmall2

These recent #ICC pushes from the lower house are happening against the backdrop of alleged cracks in the alliance between #Duterte and President Ferdinand #Marcos Jr. When once upon a time Marcos’ justice secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla took hardline positions, saying the ICC threatens Philippine sovereignty, he now says ICC cooperation needs “serious study.” #EJK #Philippines

How politics is turning the tide in ICC probe vs #DuterteDrugWar
https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/in-depth/leila-de-lima-release-house-push-international-criminal-court-drug-war-probe/

How politics is turning the tide in ICC probe vs Duterte drug war

Leila De Lima, freed on bail under the Marcos government, says she has made ICC justice for the drug war a priority

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