The Philippines: when the police kill children
(This is a very long article, but very worth reading - I’m posting exerts)
Neighbours remember him as everyone's favourite errand boy.
Then, in mid-August, Kulot went missing. He was 14 years old.
Eighteen days later, his body was found 100km from his home, in a creek called Kinamatayang Kabayo (A Horse's Deathplace).
His face was wrapped in plastic and bound with tape.
Police say his body bore signs of torture and at least 26 stab wounds, many inflicted after he died ...
According to a Global Post report, as many as 14,000 people may have been killed as part of President Rodrigo Duterte's drug war since he took office in 2016.
Of that number, dozens are believed to be teenagers or children.
Kulot's relatives and neighbours insist he was not involved in drugs.
Kulot went missing on the same mid-August night the police launched a major drug war operation across Manila and its suburbs. It left at least 80 people dead in the space of three days.
More at:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/12/philippines-police-kill-children-171201095145571.html
