Unsolicited advice
About a week ago, in what the Philippine National Police characterized as a shock-and-awe operation, 32 people who the police ...
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Due process
Public outrage followed the killing of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos last week during an anti-drug operations of the Caloocan police. ...
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Stop selling – we’re not buying
PEOPLE are not stupid. Police who are trying to wiggle their way out of the indefensible killing of 17-year-old Kian ...
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Thieves, relatives in a narco-state
President Rodrigo Duterte was fuming mad in his 50-minute late night press conference the other night (August 21), at the ...
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The tipping point
There is outrage against the killings in pursuit of this administration’s war against illegal drugs. The murder of 17-year-old Kian ...
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Duterte to foes: Oust me if you can
President Rodrigo Duterte said there will be no sacred cows in the killing of 17-year-old Grade 11 student Kian delos ...
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‘We’re victims here,’ kinsmen tell PNP chief
THE family of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos, who was shot dead by Caloocan police on Aug. 16, on Monday rejected ...
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Cardinal seeks end to ‘waste of human lives’
THE head of the Catholic Church in the Philippines called Sunday for an end to the “waste of human lives” ...
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