march 2011 – january 2020
TIMELINE OF DRUG-RELATED KILLINGS
Recording drug-related killings is a step toward seeking accountability from its perpetrators. However, this timeline of drug-related deaths does not aim to come up with an accurate number of drug-related deaths from two administration. Instead, it seeks to visualize the trends on drug-related killings in the Philippines and how the numbers increased dramatically during the Duterte administration.
The data used to develop this timeline are news articles from the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s online portal, Inquirer.net (www.inquirer.net).
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Individual stories of those who were killed
Who Were They?
Drugs and Media
Drug related killings in the Philippines has already been a problem. It only skyrocketed during the Duterte administration, but it was never absent in the previous administrations. On Valentine’s Day of 2015, during President Benigno Aquino’s term, a 71-year old...
Without Any Premonition
Emilian Gray Miranda, 36, is a brother to a poet-activist for commuters’ rights, and an owner of a water refilling station in the City of San Pedro, Laguna. In the afternoon of January 9, 2017, Emilian’s mother, perhaps expecting just another normal day at home,...
Fulfilling the Promise
In just four hours after his inauguration in June 30, 2016, the Duterte administration saw the first victim of its war against drugs. A high profile drug personality named Karlvin Chavez Licong, 27, was killed in an anti-drug operation in Tagbilaran City. He was said...
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