‘True justice won in conviction of Kian killers’By RALPH VILLANUEVAhome/News/Top Stories/‘True justice won in conviction of Kian killers’The chairman of the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission on Friday lauded the “true justice” handed to Kian Loyd de los Santos, a teenager who was violently killed last year under the Duterte administration’s war on drugs. The court ordered the policemen to pay De los Santos’ family P345,000 in civil, moral, actual and exemplary damages. The teenager’s murder was viewed by many as the symbol of human rights abuses under the Duterte administration’s drug crackdown. In August 2017, de los Santos’ body was found with two gunshot wounds to the head after a drug operation by the Caloocan City police. Police claimed that they fired at de los Santos because the 17-year-old had pulled out a gun.

Source: Manila Times November 30, 2018 16:08 UTC