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The exhumation, part of the process of healing for the relatives of the victims of extra-judicial killings during the war on drugs waged by the government of former president Rodrigo Duterte, was doubly significant at it transpired a week before the confirmation of hearings of Duterte and his co-perpetrators at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands on Feb. 23.
Keeping up with the times, we saw a flooded cemetery in Cavite and Halloween-costumed protest actions. The day before All Saints Day, Ramon Magsaysay awardee Fr. Flavie Villanueva, said mass for the victims of Rodrigo Duterte’s Extrajudicial killings at the Dambana ng Paghilom. Photos and video by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files.
Relatives of victims of extrajudicial killings under former president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs brought flowers at the Dambana ng Paghilom in the La Loma Cemetery.
Fr. Flavie: Dambana is “a landmark to remember the injustices of the war-on-drugs of the Duterte administration and to celebrate our people’s prophetic faith that will not be silenced.”
After getting killed extrajudicially in Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called “war on drugs,” many of the dead were buried in “apartment graves” that had to be leased only temporarily.
