Families of victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) receive the cremated remains of their loved ones during the 12th "Daluyan Ng Paghilom" at the Sacred Heart Parish Shrine, in Quezon City, May 25, 2023. The six cremated remains, which were blessed and turned over to their immediate family, were part of the exhumed and re-autopsied bodies of the drug war victims. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File 

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<p style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Her locality was not spared from the spate of killings that resulted after Rodrigo Duterte, the president from 2016 to 2022, unleashed an all-out war against illegal drugs.<p style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">But it never crossed her mind that she would experience a drug-related death in her own family. After all, her husband was not involved with illegal drugs at the time.

<img src="https://news-image-api.abs-cbn.com/Prod/editorImage/171109495066120230525-paghilom-urn-turnover-JC1164.jpg" style="width: 950px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Families of victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) receive the cremated remains of their loved ones during the 12th &quot;Daluyan Ng Paghilom&quot; at the Sacred Heart Parish Shrine, in Quezon City, May 25, 2023. The six cremated remains, which were blessed and turned over to their immediate family, were part of the exhumed and re-autopsied bodies of the drug war victims. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File "><span id="isPasted" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Families of victims of extrajudicial killings (EJKs) receive the cremated remains of their loved ones during the 12th &quot;Daluyan Ng Paghilom&quot; at the Sacred Heart Parish Shrine, in Quezon City, May 25, 2023. The six cremated remains, which were blessed and turned over to their immediate family, were part of the exhumed and re-autopsied bodies of the drug war victims. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File&nbsp;&nbsp;<p id="isPasted" style=" margin-top: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Tin (name changed), 27, hails from a neighborhood in the northern part of Metropolitan Manila, the capital region of the Philippines.

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