{"id":52959,"date":"2023-02-26T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/they-were-shot-in-the-head-morgue-gives-up-truth-of-rodrigo-dutertes-drug-war"},"modified":"2023-02-26T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:00:19","slug":"they-were-shot-in-the-head-morgue-gives-up-truth-of-rodrigo-dutertes-drug-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52959","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They were shot in the head\u2019: morgue gives up truth of Rodrigo Duterte\u2019s drug war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of \u2018a madman\u2019 in the exhumed remains of young Filipinos<\/p>\n<p>It was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began to investigate the merciless crackdown launched under the former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.<\/p>\n<p>Fortun, one of only two forensic pathologists in the country, has now spent more than 18 months examining the exhumed remains of dozens of victims of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/23\/victims-of-dutertes-drug-war-in-philippines-exhumed-as-leases-run-out-on-their-graves\" title=\"\">so-called \u201cwar on drugs\u201d<\/a>, revealing serious irregularities in how their postmortems were performed \u2013 including multiple death certificates that wrongly attributed fatalities to natural causes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/they-were-shot-in-the-head-morgue-gives-up-truth-of-rodrigo-dutertes-drug-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crusading pathologist Raquel Fortun finds evidence of multiple murder at the direction of \u2018a madman\u2019 in the exhumed remains of young FilipinosIt was in an old university stockroom, with wooden tables salvaged from a junkyard, that Raquel Fortun began t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,372,927,55,204,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs","category-international-criminal-court","category-philippines","category-rodrigo-duterte","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52960,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52959\/revisions\/52960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}