Benjamin Villanueva, a suspected drug pusher, was asleep when policemen in civilian clothes and wearing black masks stormed into his housing unit in Tondo, Manila, in the wee hours of Sunday.
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An alleged member of a drug-trafficking group — whose leader was on President Duterte’s “narcolist” — was killed by the Makati City police in an operation that ended in neighboring Pasig City on Tuesday.
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About a hundred students of the University of the Philippines Baguio gathered for a candle-light ceremony on Thursday night (Aug. 16), the city leg of a nationwide indignation rally on the first year anniversary of the shooting of 17-year-old Kian Delos Santos.
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Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma issued what could be his strongest statement so far against the spate of killings gripping the province of Cebu and the rest of the country, saying it showed that “the culture of impunity reigns.”
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The opposition Liberal Party (LP) has warned that the series of killings of local officials could be orchestrated to create an “atmosphere of lawlessness” that would give the Duterte administration grounds for the imposition of martial law.
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A man tagged as an illegal drug pusher was killed in a buy-bust operation in Baranga Marlulas in Kawit town in Cavite province past midnight on Saturday.
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SAN PEDRO CITY — Seven people, among them suspects in the killing of a police officer, died in gunfights with policemen in separate anticrime operations in Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and, Quezon) region on Monday and Tuesday.
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In a small multipurpose hall in Sta. Cruz, Manila, where the shanties and houses rattle every now and then as trains pass through the neighborhood, Alexander Dimalanta’s family mourns his death so close to Fathers’ Day.
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