Palace: Slain ex-mayor’s fate to befall ‘narcopols’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2019 21:30:59 +0000

Malacañang on Sunday warned officials on the government’s “narcolist” that they might suffer the same fate as a former Maguindanao mayor who was killed last week after allegedly resisting arrest.

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‘Most shabulized city’ wins award for antidrug drive

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2019 21:30:13 +0000

Once described by President Duterte as the country’s “most shabulized” city and the “bedrock of illegal drugs,” Iloilo City has received recognition from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) for its successful campaign against illegal drugs, chiefly “shabu” (crystal meth).

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Albayalde: PNP aims for more peaceful streets, communities in 2019

Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2018 13:23:51 +0000

Albayalde: PNP aims for more peaceful streets, communities in 2019

Before welcoming 2019, Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Director General Oscar Albayalde urged his subordinates to sustain the “trend” of lower crime rate recorded in 2018, as he also said the drug war must remain “relentless and strong” next year.

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2 suspected drug pushers killed, 2 nabbed in separate Ecija buy busts

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2018 06:43:03 +0000

CABANATUAN CITY, Philippines –- Two drug suspects were killed and two others were arrested in separate police operations in Nueva Ecija on Saturday (Dec. 29), police said.

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De Lima: Remember ‘innocents’ killed in drug war

Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 03:24:37 +0000

De Lima: Remember ‘innocents’ killed in drug war

“Niños Inocentes” should prompt Filipinos to recall the children who died in the war on illegal drugs, opposition Senator Leila de Lima said.

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‘Drug war toll shows admin’s low regard for human rights’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 21:22:01 +0000

People should stop accepting the government’s claim that the victims in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs were killed because they had fought back against law enforcers

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Bishop’s book draws inspiration from Kian

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:32:00 +0000

Bishop’s book draws inspiration from Kian

Extrajudicial killings, whose victims included Kian Lloyd delos Santos, a teen from his diocese, moved Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David to put together stories about hope for the third book in his Gospel series.

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‘Feast of joy must also be feast of courage’

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2018 21:32:33 +0000

Catholic Church leaders have urged the faithful to avoid the “toxicity” of violence and falsehood and fight the “contagion of violence” as the country reels from a spate of killings amid a growing culture of impunity.

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‘Nation loses soul when law becomes instrument of injustice’

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 23:23:11 +0000

Saying a “nation loses its soul when the law becomes an instrument of injustice,” former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno on Monday described the acquittal of former Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr. of plunder charges as the latest “legal abomination” plaguing Philippine society.

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