In 2017, a teenage student named Kian Delos Santos was found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in a dark alley in Caloocan, Metro Manila. The suspects, three police officers who were in Kian’s neighborhood for an anti-drug operation, claimed the boy was a drug runner who had fought back against them, but evidence would later surface that this wasn’t the case at all.
This episode’s companion photos: instagram.com/p/CerDBpvPHMl
Episode researched and co-written by Kayla De Leon
References:
- http://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/rngs/PHILIPPINES-DRUGS/010050JX18M/index.html
- https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/23/17/duterte-kians-death-bad-but-drug-war-to-continue
- https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/24/17/cop-links-colleague-to-kian-shooting
- https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1058325/full-text-courts-decision-on-cops-who-killed-kian-delos-santos
- https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/924146/hontiveros-takes-custody-of-kian-slay-witnesses
- https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/924361/breaking-kian-delos-santos-autopsy-report-gunshot-wound-killing-drug-war-head
- https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/925560/vitaliano-aguirre-ii-kian-delos-santos-senator-risa-hontiveros-war-on-drugs-summary-execution
- https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/964490/kian-delos-santos-slay-killing-caloocan-police-murder-doj-drug-war
- https://phkule.org/article/181/remembering-kian-loyd-delos-santos-oplan-tokhang-and-the-children-of-war
- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/8/24/philippine-senate-probes-police-killing-of-delos-santos
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/08/philippines-senate-hearing-highlights-deadly-consequences-for-children-in-war-on-drugs/
- https://www.cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2018/06/04/kian-delos-santos-birthday.html
- https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/08/24/timeline-kian-delos-santos-death.html
- https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2017/10/02/Senate-resumes-probe-Kian-Delos-Santos.html
- https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2018/11/29/Kian-delos-Santos-murder-Caloocan-police-guilty.html
- https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/specials/content/24/the-kian-delos-santos-case-a-timeline/
- https://www.omct.org/files/2020/06/25937/omct_philippines_childrights_06.2020_en_single.pdf
- https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1007767
- https://www.projectjurisprudence.com/2019/01/judge-kian-death-pnp-shoot-first-think-later-style.html
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/179243-kian-loyd-delos-santos-profile/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/179370-chr-investigation-kian-delos-santos-death-drug-war/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/179778-aguirre-kian-delos-santos-case-overblown-drug-war-collateral-damage/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/179911-aguirre-kian-delos-santos-death-cops/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/179921-kian-delos-santos-parents-confront-killers-senate-hearing/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/181227-dela-rosa-kian-delos-santos-killing-nasobrahan-too-much-pnp/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/195501-court-orders-arrest-caloocan-police-informant-kian-delos-santos-killing/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/207152-policemen-involved-kian-delos-santos-witness-stand/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/210234-po1-jeremias-pereda-testimony-kian-delos-santos-killing/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/210764-caloocan-court-promulgation-kian-delos-santos-case-november-2018/
- https://www.rappler.com/nation/217770-caloocan-policemen-convicted-murder-kian-delos-santos-killing/
- https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq/217663-timeline-justice-trial-kian-delos-santos/
- https://www.scoutmag.ph/35023/remembering-kian-loyd-delos-santos-a-year-later/
- https://www.untvweb.com/news/doj-wraps-preliminary-investigation-kian-delos-santos-case/
Music: “This House” and “Echoes of Time v2” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Photo above via interaksyon.philstar.com
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