The truth about the tragic death of a young Philippine boy — and dozens more caught up in Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs — has come to light thanks to one woman and a makeshift ward.
Without even a proper examination room, she says she has had to "repurpose" an old classroom at the university into a makeshift lab, using tables "sourced from a junkyard".
It was Father Flavie who asked Dr Fortun if she would also examine the remains to test the official cause of death and see if the original post-mortem examinations were indeed correct."Others would think that the bones have nothing to say, that after five years the bones would remain silent, but we've proved them wrong."Dr Fortun believes re-examining the bodies will unlock the secrets of how the people died.
"My only goal was to get his body. So I just signed the documents, even though I knew it wasn't sepsis," she said.Her findings confirmed what his mother has always known: He was shot multiple times.Dr Fortun has questioned whether medical authorities have been complicit with police in agreeing to certify a cause of death that is clearly wrong.
"With a government whose judicial system is so questionable, I think it's just a futile exercise to file legal actions," he said. "So there's hardly any real investigation that goes on … from the crime scene all the way to the crime laboratory."
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