Pray for an end to “the surge of extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals and drug offenders” in the Philippines.
“This is what the LORD Almighty said: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another.” (Zechariah 7:9)
LAMENTATION A weeping Jennelyn Olaires hugs partner Michael Siaron, 30, a pedicab driver and alleged drug pusher, who was shot and killed by motorcycle-riding gunmen near Pasay Rotonda on Edsa. He was one of six killed in drug-related incidents in Pasay and Manila yesterday. RAFFY LERMA
by Pastor Glem Melo
“Asia’s ‘shoot-to-kill’ republic? The rising body count of the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs.’”
So goes an news article from The Conversation.
ABS-CBN News puts the “number of drug-related fatalities” from May 10 to July 22, 2016 at 544 — 358 in police operations, 14o by unidentified gunmen, and 46 “as salvage” victims.
Human Rights Watch Asia Deputy Director Phelim Kine calls it “the surge of extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals and drug offenders” in the Philippines.
Edre Olalia, secretary general of the National Union of People’s Lawyers, said in an interview,
“The drug menace must stop … Yet the apparent serial summary executions of…
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