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Rodzon Enriquez’s skeletal remains are pulled out of a coffin-sized tomb in Manila and placed in a body bag. Five years after the 21-year-old was killed in the Philippines’ drug war, the lease on his grave is expiring.
As leases run out, a Catholic charity is helping families unable to afford the renewal fee to retrieve the bones of their loved ones with the aim of having them cremated and put in a permanent burial site. Villanueva hopes to eventually store the ashes in a columbarium to give victims a “dignified” final resting place — and help families find closure.
“If you couldn’t have anything to feed your children, how could I even worry for the dead if the living in front of me are dying,” Villanueva said.He had gone out to do an extra shift as a tricycle driver to pay for a special meal to share with her and their 11 children. Fuellas was told later that Reynaldo had been on a narcotics “watchlist”.“I can tell my children ‘your papa is here’.”International Criminal Court prosecutors have requested a full-blown investigation into the drug war.
Felicitas Narvarte, whose son Edward was shot dead outside a shop two weeks before Duterte was sworn into office, blames the president for his death.
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