Don't drop the ball

As the nation goes through the annual ritual of remembering the dearly departed this weekend, there may be less mourning in many households.

Thanks to recent developments, justice is looking possible for the thousands who were killed by state forces on mere suspicion of involvement in illegal drugs.

In Davao City, a death squad consisting of gangsters was organized apparently by the police and financed with some help from wealthy civilians. This is according to the brains behind the idea himself, former president Rodrigo Duterte. He was under oath when he admitted to the Senate that the Davao death squad was real, after all.