Killings in Marcos’ ‘bloodless’ drug war
And if Marcos is indeed waging a “bloodless” drug war, how would he recognize the men and women in uniform who died in anti-illegal drugs operations?
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The 2024 Dahas Report: More Reported Drug-Related Killings in 2024 than in 2023
Since the Dahas Project started its weekly online monitoring in 2021, this is the first time that more killings were attributed to unidentified assailants than to state agents.
How the Marcoses handled an assassination attempt
Unlike Sara Duterte, Carlito Dimailig issued no threats and just did it. Fifty-two years ago this month, with martial law eleven weeks in effect, at around five in the afternoon of Dec. 7, 1972, Carlito Dimailig lunged at then First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos with a 12-inch bolo.
Cebu dislodges Davao del Sur as top hotspot in drug-related killings
Cebu, with 65 killings from January until October 15, is currently the top hotspot in the Philippines for reported drug-related killings dislodging Davao del Sur which was the topnotcher the past two years.
Imee’s murky identification with KB
The first KB elections were held on May 1, 1975. Those eligible to be part of the organization “shall be at least fifteen years of age or over but less than eighteen.” Imee was then 19 years old.
The nearly forgotten shameful tourism program under Marcos Sr.
The president’s sense of shame should be deeper because his parents, former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Marcos were the originators of sexual tourism in the country.
Marines tout the Bongbong rockets that went bust during Marcos Sr.’s regime
Fifty-two years later after the failed Bongbong rockets, a new racket on the rocket is being promoted by the Marines.
The 2023 Dahas Report: The casualties of Marcos’s “bloodless” drug war
The key hotspots for the killings are Davao del Sur, 61; Cebu, 52; Metro Manila, 41; Negros Occidental, 31; and Iloilo, 22.
