RACHEL A.G. REYES

LAST week a boisterous crowd of a few hundred schoolgirls from one of Manila’s elite schools protested in the streets against extra-judicial killings. Meanwhile, around the same time, in Washington D.C., a three-man panel of professional human rights advocates were readying to do much the same thing at a US Congress hearing on President Duterte’s anti-drug war. The juxtaposition struck me as startling, dramatic, extraordinary. Were you convinced by either of these events?

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