CALOOCAN CITY, Philippines -- A pair of gleaming Harley Davidson motorbikes sit in the lobby of the upmarket Floresco Funeral Home, where President Rodrigo Duterte's 32-month drug cull has done little for business. Receptionist Marvin Darilag observes that it kills mostly poor people whose relatives cannot pay the tab.
Bishop Pablo Virgilio David, a prominent critic of the drug war, has opened 14 Catholic missions in the Manila slums where the anti-drug campaign has largely been waged. (Photo by Vincent Go)
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