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Killings of farmers on the rise under Duterte

Fifty-three-year-old Rodolfo Tagalog Sr. was harvesting coconuts when he heard and felt the shots. A bullet almost grazing his right shoulder, he fell instantly from the top of the tree and fractured his left shoulder.

Killings of farmers on the rise under Duterte

Mourning the lack of collective outrage

                             By ELLEN T. TORDESILLAS                   EVERY Undas or All Souls Day (Nov. 2) when Filipinos troop to cemeteries to remember departed loved ones, I always think of the families of desaparecidos. Where do they go to offer flowers and light the candles for their dead whom they didn’t bury? I think of Edith Burgos,

Mourning the lack of collective outrage