Dahas Project is one of the last remaining efforts to document the unprecedented drug-related killings in the Philippines that continues even after Rodrigo Duterte. It hopes to serve as a permanent record for the future.
and Marion Navarro were born eight months apart and both came of age in Caloocan City. One would later be killed, and the other would go on to count the dead.
Navarro realized that she needed to do something. Barely into adulthood, she started doing research on the drug war at the Ateneo de Manila University’s Institute of Philippine Culture. This is the home of UP’s Third World Studies Center, an institution established in 1977 in response to the repression of academic freedom by the Marcos dictatorship. It has produced both important academic papers and scathing statements on issues that hound the country, staying true to its activist beginnings but acknowledging its place in academe.
During that initial run, the team was able to find out that drug war killings continued even as the pandemic raged on. But this reality was largely ignored due to the health emergency. Still, the Dahas Project persevered, counting each dead while firming up its methodology and criteria. But at the core of what they’re doing, one that took time for them to acknowledge, is the trauma that inevitably jumps from the gory details they uncover to their consciousness.
But while the team deals with the trauma, they are also fueled by how important their work is, considering that the Dahas Project is the only remaining drug war tally in the Philippines. That, according to Ariate, “overpowers whatever physical and psychological malaise” they are feeling.
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