VICTIM

0219 Other acts causing harm or intending to cause harm to the person

Acts that cause harm or intend to cause harm to a person not described or classified in categories 0201-0211.

Inclusions: Maltreatment through physical abuse or mental cruelty; cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment not amounting to torture.

02012 Threat

Any type of threatening behavior if it is believed that the threat could be enacted. Threatening behavior, at minimum, is an intentional behavior that causes fear of injury or harm.

Inclusions: Death threats; threats to integrity. Exclusions: Using threat of force to demand a particular course of action from a person (0205); threatening a witness, justice or law enforcement official (08061); threatening voters to influence their vote (08071); threat of force to take property (0401); all injurious acts of a sexual nature (03); recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons through the threat of force for exploitation (0204); apply all exclusions listed in 0201.

07033 Abuse of Functions

Performance of or failure to perform an act, in violation of laws, by a public official in the discharge of their functions for the purpose of obtaining an undue advantage for themself or for another person or entity.

Inclusions: Abuse of function, authority, or public office; planting of evidence (07033-A); taking of property38 (07033-B); forceful ingestion of substances39 (07033-C); extortion (07033-D).

LABAN JUNJUN PARA KAY KIM. Parents of Kim Lester Ramos filed murder and planting of evidence charges against PCol Herjonner Soller at the Makati City Hall of Justice last December 10, 2019. The Ramos Family belied the policeman’s claim that Kim pointed a gun first, forcing the policeman to shoot Kim and his friend Lauro Lagarde Jr.

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION

Close inspection of available data relating to the victims of the administration’s War on Drugs would reveal that most of them come from a common demographic: males living in urban poor areas working at least (if not lower than) minimum wage jobs and standing as breadwinners of their families. In this analysis, we take a closer look at the specific data fields and, in piecemeal, describe the identities of these human rights victims.

SEX

As to sex, it is overwhelmingly apparent that the direct victims of these human rights violations are males, comprising 86.2% of the total victim count, while the other 13.8% are women. These percentages show data on direct victims. However, if we are to consider the effects of the campaign against illegal drugs on indirect victims, women are the ones most affected by the post-incident effects of these HRVs. Of the total 494 cases, 32.1% of

the victims are within the age

range of 25 - 34. Meanwhile, 25.6% are aged 35 - 44 and 20.9% are 15 - 24. It is significant to note that minors and senior citizens are not exempt from these human rights violations as, taken together, they comprise at least 3% of the victims.

168 COMMON LAW RELATIONSHIPS

149 SINGLE 126 MARRIED COUPLES

28 SEPARATED 5 WIDOWED

About 61.4% of the victims are partnered,

either through marriage or common-law relationships. It is apparent from this data that victims of HRVs leave partners and families behind as the former are killed or wrongfully imprisoned.

NUMBER OF MINOR CHILDREN

83.3% of the victims have at least 1 minor child dependent upon them

for subsistence. A third of them have at least 3 - 4 minor children.