Justice for drug war victims

A helping hand: Catholic priest Flavie Villanueva helping funeral workers transport remains following an exhumation at Navotas Cemetery in Navotas City last year. — Reuters

The same day Aurora Blas found her husband’s body in a Manila funeral home in 2016 with a bullet hole in his head, she signed a document provided by the mortician saying pneumonia had killed him. That decision has haunted her.

She couldn’t afford an autopsy, so she agreed to the lie in order to bury her husband.