Farmers

3 min

Edgardo and Ismael

Negros Oriental's land is fertile and captivating, fed by an active volcano and sheltered by forest. But it's also tinged with the blood...

1 min

Dodoy

On the morning of 30 December 2020, as Roy Giganto and the rest of the Tumandok 9 lay dead or dying, Lorenzo Paña was 135 miles away in...

5 min

Roy

Hinilawod, a 28,000-verse epic that takes around three days to chant, is an ancient literary work that has been passed on orally through...

4 min

Datu Victor

I don't know how to start with the story of Datu Victor Danyan's death. I could tell you how, since Duterte imposed martial law on...

2 min

Tatay Toto

One of the sad realities of our time is how our idea of greatness gets a little bit more distorted each day. We pin our hopes on the...

Portraits and Stories

Those We Lost is a collection of portraits and stories of the victims of the so-called drug war in the Philippines. This site is a memorial to the murdered and a call to action for the rest of us.