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“Not King Herod the Great; not the butcher of Tehran (Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi) has been able to accomplish the blood shed by the innocents achieved by the recent Philippines’ governments. There is no doubt of guilt. We watched it happening—we confronted killers,” notes Katie Alsop of the RINJ Foundation. Ms. Alsop an officer of the NGO spent time in the Philippines with the local team during the past seven years following up on EJK reports.
“After holding in my arms, the mother of murdered children and then seeing the U.S. President buddy-up-to the leader of the rumoured Duterte Death Squads, I came to despise American politicians and all similar killers,” she added.
“Shoot them dead.” Over 30,000 died as the bullets flew from mid 2016 to yesterday. But International Criminal Court (ICC) Judges Péter Kovács, Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou, and María del Socorro Flores Liera are not impressed with the threats and badmouthing and have given the go-ahead for a case against the Philippines leadership. No names from the list are specified yet for summons or warrant.
“Various domestic initiatives and proceedings, assessed collectively, do not amount to tangible, concrete and progressive investigative steps in a way that would sufficiently mirror the Court’s investigation,” the International Criminal Court said yesterday.
A 2018 civil society study found that EJKs reached 27,832 unexplained violent deaths by December 2018. “Even Duterte had lost control. Barangay captains were submitting lists directly to killers and the killers would soon be demanding their pay,” says report item.
Actual footage of some killings illustrates modus operandi of most
Watch the second pillion rider rush to the corpse and plant drugs on the deceased.
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Watch and read comments on the below video on YouTube
- 4-Gunmen Death Squad Murder in Santa Rosa City Laguna Philippines
- Premeditated State-Sponsored Murder CCTV Manila Police murdering the poor in Barangay 19
EJKs in the Philippines: Watch state-sponsored murderers do their killings and read comments on YouTube
Murder of the innocents. The Philippines Fallen. Click to watch the full-length video. Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
“Horrible leadership mining the wealth of a nation for their own pockets, the government of Rodrigo Duterte is corrupt and murderous,” is what the United Nations representatives are unofficially saying, and worse when asked what they will do about the Philippines, which has apparently fallen. But they do nothing.”—The Philippines has Fallen. The controversial Duterte videos.
Editorial note: Philippines Vice President Leni Robredo, at great personal risk and eventual cost to her career, safety and security, bravely warned the world in 2016. So too did civil society, in more detail. Why didn’t anyone listen or care? Since then, political opponents, journalists, human rights defenders and poor people who walked with a limp or a lisp have been accused of being either communists, drug users or terrorists and murdered in cold blood. Many were infants and children, killed to draw out the target. Killers I have met were people paid well, given a gun, and a motorcycle and regularly assigned lists.
Video: Shero Leni Robredo, February 2017.
- Some 25 to 29.7 extra violent deaths occurred daily in the Philippines as a result of state-personnel and state-directed-vigilante extra judicial killings following Rodrigo Duterte’s assuming power mid-2016.
- 1600 Filipinos die daily from all causes.
- 22.3-27 daily killings already take place as a result of murders and occasional armed conflicts.
- Under Rodrigo Duterte there were 27,832 extrajudicial killings up to Dec. of 2018.
Prosecutor Karim Khan. June 2022 file photo courtesy ICC. Read: Duterte Murders got a new look from ICC
The top 12 alleged EJK criminals accused in the International Criminal Court are as follows. Top Criminals named in mass murder ICC Case:
- Philippines former President Rodrigo Duterte
- Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre
- Philippine Police Director General Ronald Dela Rosa
- House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez
- Former Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno
- Police Superintendent Edilberto Leonardo
- Senior Police Officer 4 Sanson “Sonny” Buenaventura
- Police Superintendent Royina Garma
- National Bureau of Investigation Director Dante Gierran
- Solicitor General Jose Calida
- Sen. Richard Gordon
- Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano
The heart ripping case of Erica “Angel Navales” Fernandez, one of thousands killed in the six-year Duterte murder spree.
Angel Navales (DOB 09/28/1999) was shot dead with a single bullet by one of two unidentified gunmen at Gumamela St. Barangay, Commonwealth, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines at or around 11:00 p.m. on 25 October 25, 2016. Her boyfriend, 21-year-old construction worker Jericho P. Camitan, was killed with five rounds.
DDS Modus Operandi in killing of ‘Angel’ and her BF
Facebook image of Angel Navales in the school cafeteria recovered late October 2016. “Many a tear has been shed over the loss of this child,” said RINJ humanitarian worker Karinna Angeles in 2018. See full article.
Murdered in Manila, her Barbie Doll beside her in the dirt. “This is why we are so angry, and this is also why we cry,” says nurse Karinna Angeles who knew this child’s family from a previous tragedy. Photo source supplied. Art/Cropping/Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective Magazine
The 4-year-old little girl pictured here with her dad was murdered in 2016 by police who were trying to shoot her grandpa, a man who Denila Katalbas, police chief in Guihulngan City, says was put on a “drug list” by somebody who obviously did not like him. (Grieving family-submitted photo.)
Is this to be the new Duterte/Marcos Legacy?
Marcos Sr. was a violent military dictator and mentor of Rodrigo Duterte. Marcos Sr. ordered martial law in the Philippines and encouraged the torture, rape and murder of his opponents. Thousands were killed. Rodrigo Duterte entered exactly the same path in 2016, expecting impunity. So far, he has realized those expectations.
Marcos’ family and cronies are said to have amassed an estimated $10 billion (Reuters) USD in ill-gotten wealth which the family flaunts.
Etta Rosales says she was raped, tortured, and went through electric shock and Russian roulette at the hands of Philippine government officials.
Trinidad Herrera says, “they [“Marcos Sr. government police”] ordered me to remove my blouse and they applied electric shock on my breast. Electricity went through my body until I couldn’t take it anymore.”
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Fe Mangahas, said: “They would scare me again by touching me and breathing down my neck and then I felt something like naihi ako (I peed). I figured it was blood because at the time I did not realize I was two months pregnant.”
Maria Christina Bawagan said her thighs were hit until they looked like rotten vegetables. She was sexually abused, with her captors inserting objects into her vagina and touching her breasts while she was blindfolded.
Many thousands of Filipinos opposed in 2016 making a hero of Dictator Marcos Sr. They were kept at bay with assault weapons.
Marcos Reign, Myth-Making and Deception in History
Years after the death of Dictator Marcos a similar leader, Rodrigo Duterte has emerged in the “Palace”. Duterte is best known for his extra-judicial murders of an estimated 4,500 persons in the Philippines a little more than 100 days into his brutal reign.
Duterte running mate and friend Former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos is the son of the former Dictator Marcos and his response to these women is “Get over it.” But there was a new group of women in the streets in 2016 pleading for a stop to a new mass of killings under Duterte in 2016.
Criticisms levelled at alleged kleptocrat Bongbong Marcos suggest Marcos Jr. is unapologetic for human rights violations and ill-gotten wealth during his father’s administration. The extra-judicial killings in the Philippines have continued. Does this explain why the extrajudicial killings have continued in the Marcos/Duterte era? That is truly unknown.
History professors from Ateneo de Manila University released the following opinion in spring 2016. This is a reflection on the legacy of Mr. Marcos.
“In response to Ferdinand “Bongbong” Romualdez Marcos, Jr.’s call that teachers and students of history should make a judgment about the Marcos administration, we, the undersigned members of the Ateneo de Manila community, vehemently oppose and condemn the ongoing willful distortion of our history. We deplore the shameless refusal to acknowledge the crimes of the Martial Law regime. We reject the revision of history, disturbing vision of the future, and shallow call for “unity” being presented by Marcos Jr. and like-minded candidates in the 2016 elections.
“The Marcos regime’s economics of debt-driven growth was disastrous for the Philippines. The regime was not interested in inclusive development, long-term state-building, nor genuine social transformation of the country, despite its “New Society” rhetoric. Instead, Marcos was mainly concerned with perpetuating his personal hold on power by favoring family members, friends, and other cronies. Thus, Marcos simply created new elites or “oligarchs” rather than abolish them — supposedly one of his main justifications for declaring martial law. Those who dared challenge the regime’s monopoly on power, whether politicians, business people, political activists, organized labor, peasants or urban poor, Church workers, students — young or old, rich or poor — were intimidated, imprisoned, kidnapped, tortured or summarily executed.
“We refuse to forget the atrocities committed by the Marcos regime, and we renew our demand that the perpetrators of these crimes be brought to justice. We also reiterate our position that the government should relentlessly pursue and reclaim all the ill-gotten wealth accumulated by the Marcos family and its cronies. Moreover, victims and their families should be given justice and compensation in full. Any call for unity, most especially from the heirs of the Marcos regime which bitterly divided the country, will be empty and meaningless unless truth and justice are upheld.”
5-Yr.-Old Danica May Garcia was shot to death in her family’s store by two men on motorcycles, said police in Dagupan in Pangasinan province. Her Grandpa was on a list of drug users.
On March 28, 2016, the Department of History of the University of the Philippines Diliman released a statement entitled “MALAKAS AT MAGANDA: Marcos Reign, Myth-Making and Deception in History” In it, they stated:
“Great danger now lurks behind a deceptive nostalgia for a past that never really existed–that the Marcos years were a period of peace and prosperity. This is patently Marcos myth and deception. Under martial law, the country was plunged into a climate of repression and plunder and then into a social crisis that exploded in the 1980s.
“…it was in fact under martial law that the communist and Moro rebellions grew in leaps and bounds. Marcos claimed to break up an old oligarchy, but martial law instead created a new type under his control, a crony oligarchy.
“Economic crises characterized the Marcos years, as economists have consistently revealed, the most telling indicator was the extent of poverty. Poverty incidence grew from 41% in the 1960s to 59% in the 1980s. Vaunted growth was far from inclusive and driven by debt, which further weighed down on the nation. From 1970 to 1983, foreign debt increased twelve times and reached $20 billion (Dr. Manuel Montes, 1984). It grew at anaverage rate of 25% from 1970 to 1981. Much went to unproductive expenses like the Bataan Nuclear Plant, which was unsound and wasteful.
“To say then that EDSA interrupted our becoming like Singapore is a big joke, a malicious lie. Marcos had mismanaged the economy; it was in shambles long before the EDSA revolt. From 1970 to 1980, among East Asian and Southeast Asian countries, the Philippines registered the lowest GDP per capita at 3.4% [sic] (An Analysis of Economic Crisis, ed. Dr. Emmanuel de Dios, 1984). Peace and order, a spurious claim, actually meant an iron-fisted clampdown on civil liberties. Through presidential decree and executive order backed by the full force of the military apparatus, Marcos padlocked Congress, jailed the opposition, gagged media, emasculated unions, and banned student councils. Thousands were jailed without warrant and due process, not to mention countless killings and disappeared. Yet the national crime rate climbed continuously from 183 in 1976 to 279 (per 100,000) in 1980 (De Dios, ed. 1984 citing Philippine Constabulary data). In 14 long years, repression had also stunted the growth of independent-minded new leaders from the younger generation.
“We reject deception and demand accountability!”
Ed. Note: Since Rodrigo Duterte took office, anecdotal accounts of rape have risen dramatically. Murders of children and women in the so called “drug wars” of leader Duterte and now Marcos Jr. are such that the streets of cities and towns in the Philippines’ provinces have gone dead at night. Fear reins above all. Taboo in coffee shops and bars is the talk of Duterte and his extra-legal killings to this day, 18 May 2024.
Some background reading:
- Human Rights In The Philippines Ransacked by Duterte Junta
- PH Justice Minister OK’s Murder of a Class of People
- Do you have spare food? Filipinos are Starving.
- Interview with a RINJ Humanitarian Worker
- Press Release: RINJ Foundation Anounces #BawalAngDroga Project for Filipinos
- #BawalAngDroga or Pres. Duterte kills you.
- Philippines Fascist Duterte Targets Children of 9 for Death
- Death Penalty for Rape = Rapists will Kill Victim. Death Penalty Vulgar in Any Case.
- Sex-Offending Philippines Catholic Priests Warned
- Red Lines on #GlobalValues
- Sexual Harassment of Women in the Philippines promoted by Duterte Fans
- Duterte Manipulates Congress: Hang 9 Yr-Old Kids
- Duterte Goes After Poor Kids – Death Penalty for 9-Year-Olds
- Duterte Supports Reproductive Rights of Filipinos
- RINJ Calls For Philippino President Duterte’s Resignation pending indictment for Systematic State-Sponsored Murder
- Largest Global Woman’s Group sees Fierce 2017 Fight for Safety of Woman & Kids
- Safety of Women & Children Jeopardized By Duterte Decision to Bury Marcos a Hero
- RINJ Foundation Urgent warning to Women of the Philippines
- RINJ Continues to Warn Filipino Girls in National Emergency
- Fear Spreads in Philippines as Women on Drug List Raped, Kids Killed