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Forensic expert @Doc4Dead and activist priest Flavie Villanueva re-examine the bones of slain victims of Duterte's drug war.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva on convincing the families to have the victims' bodies exhumed and reexamined: Sila ay dumaan sa proseso ng dignified systematic and holistic healing.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: Partikular doon ay ang psychospiritual intervention...kasama ng paghilom ng sugat at trauma na dinulot ng pagpatay ng kanilang mahal sa buhay.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: Inisip ko na merong tatlong proseso: paghuhukay, tumungo sa isang puwedeng mag-cremate. Importante na mabalik sa kanila nang may dangal na lalagyan. Pero sabi ko, tingnan din natin 'yung katotohanan na maaaring matuklasan sa mga labi.

@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: Bago natin isinagawa 'yung unang exhumation, sumangguni tayo sa ating kaibigan (Fortun).... At hindi siya nag-atubili.

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@Doc4Dead What can we get from examining bones 5 years after these people were killed?

@Doc4Dead: ‘Yung usual issues ang i-aaddress mo: identity, cause of death, and manner of death.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: 'Yung cause of death, 'yung death certificate, mali-mali. Dito namin nakita 'yung kung ano-anong natural cause ang nilagay. Finally may proof kami na hindi natural. May tama sa ulo.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: In some cases, may bala. Ito 'yung mga "autopsied."

Fortun explains that bullets were found because not all bodies were "autopsied," and in cases where a body was, the autopsy was not done properly.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva on what the truth means to the victims' families: Ito ay napakahalaga. Ito ay katuwang doon sa paghilom. Kasi ang pakay nila kung ba't sila nagtiwala, nais nilang magkaro'n ng katarungan. Ang katarungan maraming hugis. Isa doon ay ang katotohanan.

@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: If the truth is with them and in them, then healing eventually, I believe, follows.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead on what the reexamination means to the victims’ families: Walang pangako, pero at least meron tayong pinanghahawakan. Saan pupunta ang findings? Ang sabi ko na lang sa kanila, maghintay na lang tayo ng susunod na administrasyon. It’s realistic.

@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: And the other is, maghintay tayo ng tulong sa labas. I’m really waiting for the international forensic community to come.

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@Doc4Dead Why the need to wait for a new administration?

@Doc4Dead: ’Yung ginagawa ko naman ngayon, dapat ginawa ’yan noong una. ’Yung nakita ko ngayon, dapat nakita ’yan noong una. Bakit na-miss?

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva on pushing through with helping drug war victims' families despite limited resources, manpower: No is not an option. Threat will never deter us in doing what we do.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: So long as the family grants us the authorization, gagawin natin itong pag-eexhume upang mabigyan, makita, at maibalik sa kanila 'yung katotohanan na ninakaw sa kanila.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: Magkalakip ang paghilom at katotohanan. Sa kanila, alam nilang pinatay, pero kung ihahambing sa police report, wala silang makitang halos katotohanan doon. Sa tulong ni doc, merong mas extensive na pagkakapitan at nagkakaroon ng kapayapaan para sa kanila.

@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva on supporters of the drug war: Itong mga nagsasabing luminis ang kalye, ang lipunan, inaanyayahan ko silang tingnan nang mas malalim ‘yung katotohanan kung luminis talaga.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: Hindi maaaring sabihing luminis dahil dumanak ang dugo sa kalye. Kapag dumanak ang dugo sa kalye, hindi lilinis ‘yan. Mayroong papalit.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: Kaunti lang ’tong nakikita namin. Ito ’yung may pangalan, may kamag-anak. Ang tanong ko: Saan napunta ang mga unidentified?

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: Kung wala kang sistemang ganito, lulusot ’yang mga ’yan (unidentified). ’Yang numbers ng napatay, that’s so small. I don’t think that’s accurate.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva on sustaining the exhumation project: We will continue to knock and express our fervent need for support. We’re not on the tip of the iceberg. Marami pa.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead on the ICC probe into drug war: I have heard from families na talagang hopeful na dadating sila at titingnan ‘yung kaso nila.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead says she is prepared to help in the ICC probe.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva on cooperating in investigations: This is very much I believe part of my role as a priest: to seek justice, to offer healing to those in need, and to be a voice to those who have been silenced.

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@Doc4Dead What kind of help do you need to continue the project?

@Doc4Dead: Unang-una, hindi kami pigilan. Kasi kailangan 'to gawin. Isa pa, kulang talaga sa gamit.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: These cases I have seen, not all of them ay pusher, etc. Later on parang lumalabas, excuse na lang 'yung drugs.

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@Doc4Dead .@Doc4Dead: I would appeal to their families na sana lumapit din sila sa program ni Father, kahit na hindi sila ‘yung mga ineexhume namin.

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@Doc4Dead What kind of help do you need to continue the project?

Fr. Villanueva: 'Wag kaming pigilan para hanapin 'yung katotohanan. We seek the truth that has been deprived sa mga pamilya na tinokhang.

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@Doc4Dead Fr. Villanueva: We are only after the truth and the healing of the families. Let the truth stand.

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