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The arguments for why Duterte trial will happen—and why it should—are overwhelming. But so is the argument that a conviction…
“I thought we were doing something good,” said Edgar Matobato, one of the hitmen of the Davao Death Squad. He…
One day in June 2016, a trusted friend – a priest – contacted me and asked me for a favor.…
Weeks before he died in May 2024, Father Amado Picardal wished that the feud between the Marcoses and the Dutertes…
The International Criminal Court could add more victims and incidents in the case against Rodrigo Duterte if the charges against…
The ICC trial of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte is the necessary antidote to this contagion of state-sanctioned murder. THE…
The ICC has disclosed that an additional 500 victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s “drug war” have been included in its lists…
“Duterte and his co-perpetrators shared a common plan or agreement to ‘neutralize’ alleged criminals in the Philippines” through murder, the…
Clarita Alia speaks at a press conference in 2002, a year after the first of her four sons were killed…