What is astonishing is this. The Liberal Party, the Aquinos and Cojuangcos, Senator Leila de Lima, the CBCP, US billionaire Loida Nicolas, Vice President Leni Robredo - all of which have made this their biggest issue against Duterte - as well as NGOs such as the Human Rights Watch, the Free Legal Assistance Group, and the PCIJ have huge resources amounting to hundreds of millions of pesos, which they can even combine.


Yet they can't even present to us a single case of such EJKs - the names of the police killers, who they received orders from, the names of those killed, where the killing took place, that is, the usual, the normal information one needs to prove a fact.


Details on only three EJKs have been uncovered so far but no thanks to these people and groups.


Why haven't they done this obvious thing to be done, if they were really against EJKs? 


In a word, hypocrisy.


They really don't care about stopping EJKs, but are just using this issue to demonize this President, or in the case of some reporters, to portray themselves as excellent investigative journalists or great news photographers with the Pulitzer in sight.


For instance, the PCIJ has been devoting resources on the EJK allegations of a police sergeant Arthur Lascañas against Duterte when he was Davao city mayor, rather than investigating just one recent case of an EJK. But of course the latter requires tedious investigative work, and hardly sensational.


The only three cases of EJKs-one didn't succeed-on which we have details, and which appear to be moving through the legal system are as follows:

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The killing of Albuera mayor and suspected drug lord Rolando Espinosa last November in his prison cell in Baybay City, by a team of the Philippine National Police's Region 8 Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, allegedly as he shot at the police who were serving a search warrant on him in his jail cell.
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The kidnapping and attempted murder in February in Calaca, Batangas of Amante Valdos, a suspected drug suspect, by Police Officer 3 Abmar Mohammed.
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The attempted murder in August last year of Efren Morillo, when he refused to confess he was a drug dealer, allegedly by Senior Police Inspector Emil Garcia, PO3 Allan Formilliza, PO1 James Aggarao, and PO1 Melchor Navisaga, all of Quezon City Police Station No. 6 in Batasan Hills.
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Those people and groups protesting to high heavens about EJKs under Duterte had nothing to do in bringing these cases to light. The Espinosa killing was uncovered by a Senate committee, which prompted the National Bureau of Investigation to investigate it and file charges. The second case was pursued by the suspected cop-killer's colleagues themselves in the Las Piñas police force. The third was investigated by the Ombudsman's Military and Other Law Enforcement Office.



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7,080 "EJKs" and so much outrage; only three cases with details? by Rigoerto Tiglao , March 6, 2017, <a href="https://goo.gl/cHDPPN" target="_blank" class="news_link" title="Source">The Manila Times</a>
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Why only 3 out of 7080 alleged extra-judicial killings have detailed information?