Filipino American Visibility Day at the University of California Berkeley
Filipino American Visibility Day at the University of California Berkeley
By Mong Palatino
ManilaToday.net
Last night I was watching the Warriors game held at the Oracle. How big is the Oracle? Maybe it has a capacity of 18 to 20,000. Imagine the Oracle full of dead bodies. This is the estimated number of drug-related extrajudicial killings in the Philippines under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
Perhaps you already learned from the news about the notorious anti-drug war, the mad president and his frequent outbursts against the church, women, and his critics. But what is not clearly explained is that in the past two years, Duterte has been waging three wars: the war on drugs, the war on terror in Mindanao, and the all-out war against communist groups.
Who are the casualties of these wars? The farmers, the Lumad and other indigenous peoples, plantation workers, activists, students.
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