‘We have to show courage’: the Philippines mothers taking Duterte and his ‘war on drugs’ to court
by Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent from on (#5QJSR)
Up to 30,000 are believed to have died since the president urged police to start killing drug users - now their families want justice
On 11 May 2017, Crisanto Lozano set off early in the morning from his home in Manila. He was going to renew his security guard licence, a requirement for his profession. By afternoon, he still hadn't returned, nor was he picking up his phone. Then the family realised that Crisanto's younger brother, Juan Carlos, was also missing.
The next day, they heard news that two bodies had been discovered nearby. The brothers had been shot dead during a police operation.
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