If President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that his only sin was extrajudicial killings was, according to his spokespersons, just a joke, then it’s not funny.
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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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A police officer shot dead a village councilman, who was a suspected drug dealer, Wednesday night during a buy-bust operation in Cabatuan town in Iloilo province.
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In a mocking comment against his critics, President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday God promised him that all victims of extrajudicial killings would all go to heaven.
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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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