Tuesday, September 22, 2020

The Mortician of Manila: Inside the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’

 


A funeral parlour in Manila becomes a window into the lives and deaths shaping President Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’.

His relationships with clients reveal both the empathy and contempt he holds for the country’s “drug war” victims who have lost their loved ones in police killings and are now, like him, struggling to survive.

When Angelita, who lost her son in a suspected drug-related police killing, arrives at Eusebio 24hr Funeral Services, she realises she cannot afford her son’s funeral.


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