All Saints Day and All Souls Day are annual reminders for us to remember, honor, and celebrate the dead. It brings death into the context of our daily being and reminds us about how short life is.
But as we reminisce on our fallen loved ones, let us take a moment to think of the victims of the war on drugs whose names and stories should not be forgotten.
They have suffered and died unmercifully under the current regime. Forgetting them would be an unspoken agreement with how things are now that is why we should not.
Remembering The Victims Of Drug War
Bladen Skyler Abatayo
4 years old
On a raid last July 2018 led to the killing of four-year-old Bladen Skyler Abatayo.
Althea Fhem Barbon
4 years old
Althea died of a bullet that hit her spine, she was on a motorcycle with her father when police shot him in the back. The bullet hit the 4-yo girl riding in front after piercing the body of her father, who died instantly.
Francisco Manosca
5 years old
Francis was five when he died with his father on December 11 after a masked vigilante shot and killed Domingo from the window of their home.
Aldrinne Pineda
13 years old.
“Pa, binaril ako. Pa, pulis.” Ilong’s father Allan recalled him saying those words as he rushed his son to the hospital. Ilong would die the next day.
Jayross Brondial
13 years old.
“Kuya, 'wag! 'Wag ako, hindi ako! (Sir, don't! Not me, it's not me!)” he screamed as he held his chest hit by a bullet. Jayross 'Utoy' Brondial, 13, was killed by a motorcycle-riding, masked gunman, in what neighbors believe might have been a case of mistaken identity.
Joshua Cumilang
18 years old
Joshua was allegedly dragged by armed men to an alley near their home before being killed by Delpan beat patrolman Ronald Alvarez and a companion, according to the victim's cousin, Jimmy Walker.
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