When dead men do tell tales

Keeping their memories alive: Fortun arranging the skeletal remains of a drug war victim for autopsy in her laboratory in Manila. — AFP

Raquel Fortun whispers to the human skeletal remains spread out in a makeshift morgue in the Philippine capital Manila. She is seeking the truth about their violent deaths – and justice for their families.

Six months after Rodrigo Duterte left office, Fortun, 60, continues to examine the bodies of some of the thousands of people killed during the former president’s brutal drug war.