Drug war dead exhumed

A mother’s pain: Narvarte, whose son Edward was shot dead in 2016, placing candles in front of his tomb to mark his death anniversary at a cemetery in Manila. — AFP

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.

Activists say tens of thousands of people have died since President Rodrigo Duterte ordered police to go after drug addicts and dealers in a widely-condemned campaign that has largely targeted poor men.