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Noynoy Aquino s death gives Duterte dynasty upper hand

‘Noynoy’ Aquino’s death gives Duterte dynasty upper hand Nikkei © Provided by Free Malaysia Today The urn of Benigno Aquino III is seen during a public viewing in Quezon City yesterday. (AP pic) MANILA: Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, the former Philippine president and son of two of the country’s greatest democracy icons, died from kidney disease on Thursday at the age of 61. His cremated remains are to be interred on Saturday alongside his parents at the Manila Memorial Park. A funeral mass began at 10am local time, at the Ateneo de Manila University, Aquino’s alma mater, where his funeral urn had been on view on Friday.

Intimations of accountability

Nothing can compensate for the loss of a husband, a father, and in some instances even a wife, a mother, and a child or for that matter, for the years of want and deprivation inflicted by the sudden demise of a family breadwinner. Mostly unremarked except in studies by such institutions as the University of the Philippines is the humanitarian crisis that afflicts those left behind by the heads of families who, alleged to be either drug addicts or drug pushers, were systematically gunned down on the strength of what the police understood to be the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte to “kill, kill, kill.”

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