'If we don’t speak, if we don’t report, if we don’t tell the story, we never said no,' Rappler’s former investigative reporter and author of 'Some People Need Killing' tells Cebuanos
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In some of those stories, the journalist had met individuals that were part of an “anti-crime unit” that were given hit lists of suspected lawbreakers. One of them, she said, was tasked with burying the bodies and sometimes, pinning them down before the killing blow was dealt. “If you don’t dare, keep a record. Keep your own record. Keep it honest, keep it well, and speak whenever you think you can…and sometimes, even when you think you can’t.”Johann “Panki” Nadela, a community organizer, cried the day he heard his friend was shot dead on his way home. His friend “Kaloy” was an active member of
He never forgot the words “shoot to kill” that came out of Duterte’s lips at the beginning of his term in 2016. Two of his friends, also IDU Care members, were victims of the former president’s drug war. Nearing the end of Duterte’s term in 2022, the military reported that Booc’s brother, whom they alleged was a New People’s Army rebel, was killed in a series of “encounters” in New Bataan town in Mindanao.
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