PHOTOESSAY: Buried in debt only to have their loved ones get a burial

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Authors and Corporations: Sepe Jr, Fernando G.
In: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa, 24, 2018, 2, p. 146-157
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Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 146-157
ISSN: 2324-2035
1023-9499
DOI: 10.24135/pjr.v24i2.453
published in: Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
Language: Undetermined
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Collection: Auckland University of Technology (AUT) Library (CrossRef)
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<jats:p>The photoessay Healing The Wounds From the Drug War was the trail of people’s lives that have been disrupted by this brutal campaign in the Philippines. It was about what happens to those people left behind after the killings. Some who survive end up in decrepit jails. The families of the dead, mostly from the poor who get by in hand-to-mouth existence, end up buried in debt only to have their loved ones get a burial. But it also a story of hope for those given a new lease of life by organisations willing to assist in the rehabilitation of drug addicts.</jats:p>