Rappler's latest stories on Evangelista Drug War Series
'Some People Need Killing' | Part 1
How a Manila gang finds the license to kill

'I will kill you all'
At a time when alleged narco politicians named by the President are being killed with impunity, officials on a kill list in Cebu are gunned down one after another

'It's War' | Conclusion
'What would you call it, what do you call it if nobody dies? What else do you call it? It’s a war, a war on drugs,' says General Bato dela Rosa

'There Are Snakes Everywhere' | Part 6
The murder of Charlie Saladaga causes little consternation. "It was nothing," says Angel. "The CSG were bragging. They were saying, ‘Look what happened. Which punk is next?’”

'I Finish The Job' | Part 5
'They’re the CSG...They’re the ones who kill the drug users and dealers,” says one resident of Village 105

'What Did The CSG Do Wrong?' | Part 4
CSG founder Alvin Constantino tells Rappler that CSG Inc was meant to help the nation, and in no way promotes extrajudicial killings

'Get it from the chief' | Part 3
'Who ends up looking good when people like Sitoy with his grenade are killed? The police. But they didn’t kill him. We just called them whenever there was a body,' says Simon

'The cops were showing off' | Part 2
Rappler's sources claim cops had actively supported the CSG’s vigilante activities – 'They were the killing arm of the police'

TestSite: Testing
Heart de Chavez met her end with a bullet in her cheek and another in the back of her head. They were fired, says Heart’s sister Arianne, by officers of the Philippine National Police.
Rappler among finalists of 2018 Osborn Elliott Prize
Journalist Patricia Evangelista and photographer Carlo Gabuco are lauded for their investigations into police killings published under Rappler's Impunity Series

The Fifth Man
The police call it an encounter. The survivor says it was an execution. Forensic evidence says he may be right.

The red mark
For three months in 2017, the Payatas village hall and the police station demanded the profiling and drug testing of residents they believed were drug personalities. Every household that refused was marked red.

This is where they do not die
The war, as we have discovered, is fought in places where privilege does not extend

Kung saan nagsimula ang digmaan kontra-droga
EXKLUSIBO: Kilala ng mga kaanak ng mga natokhang kung sino ang bumaril sa mga anak nila – at nakahanda silang pangalanan siya

Where the drug war began
EXCLUSIVE: Families of the Philippine drug war's dead claim they know the man who shot their children – and they're willing to speak his name

Impunity: Welcome to the end of the war
Heart de Chavez met her end with a bullet in her cheek and another in the back of her head They were fired says Heart’s sister Arianne by officers of the Philippine National Police

Impunity: The Night Before Christmas
Christmas is for family, even when Papa is in a coffin and Mama disappears

Impunity: The Church of the Resistance
At the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help the brutality of extrajudicial killings becomes the image of Christmas

Impunity: In the Name of the Father
Rodrigo Duterte said Let there be blood and there was blood

Impunity: Murder as Meme
Welcome to Manila where torture is a joke and murder is a hashtag

Impunity: Let Them Sleep
After 16 days of waiting Jerico and Angel executed side by side in Quezon City are finally laid to rest

Impunity: Jerico's Angel
His killers tossed a sign on his chest that said he was a drug dealer His friends ripped the sign away Drugs they say have become an excuse for murder

Impunity: A Halloween Massacre
On the eve of the day of the dead five people were executed by men who decided they did not deserve to live

The Drug War: Monday
Fifteen weeks after the declaration of a war on drugs at least 12 people are killed between dusk and dawn one Monday in October

The Drug War: Legendary
Ask the police chief of Santa Ana what he thinks of his new president He will give you one answer

The Drug War: Execution at Cessna
According to the narrative now held acceptable under the administration of Rodrigo Duterte Jhay Lord Clemente deserved to die

The Drug War: Danica, My Danica
Danica Mae Garcia was five when she was killed in the crossfire after riding in tandem assassins shot her grandfather inside their Dagupan home She is perhaps the youngest victim of the extrajudicial killings that have come together with the bloody war on drugs

The Drug War: Safe for the good
Ask them if they are afraid and they will hesitate and then they will say no It is not dangerous said a young tricycle driver who knew Jerome You will be safe for as long as you are good
