So this woman lost her husband and she's got three children. She's being interviewed for the human rights community, just her thoughts. All that's on her mind, she says, are her three children and she doesn't want to burden their minds by saying their father isn't there.
For the first few minutes I just stared at her, listening but not all that wrapped in her words. But she has a face worth being absorbed. I can't really described it - she looks perfectly like one of the crowd but she's got a strong face and her eyes are beautiful.
And she said a most perplexing thing - that she didn't hate the police. She was stunningly disappointed - she used to stand when a police man entered the bus or sommat - but she doesn't hate them. The people that tortured her husband, then murdered him for pressing charges. On a public bus.
There was an ex-judge watching the video too and he said that he overheard a conversation on the bus between two policemen, about a dumb (as in having difficulty speaking) girl. It was late and one police officer told her to wait somewhere. He came back with some people (police or other friends) and they took that girl to some foresty/shrubby area and raped her seventeen times. He said something about her being on an anthill. One of the police officers talking on that bus was one of the rapists.
How fucking dare they.
I added another name to the list of those killed in the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines.
Please sign, I know moving countries was a bit non-sequitor but this is incredibly important.
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