Duterte’s ‘drug war’ created a generation of children damaged by violence

2026-02-27 - 00:23

In a small, ramshackle home in Payatas, a girl named Jennifer sits on a blue couch that still bears the mark of a bullet. It was there, in December 2016, that she clung to her father, Benigno, as police officers barged in. Despite his desperate pleas for mercy—“Sir, if I committed a crime, please have