Michael D. Sullivan is a freelance journalist based in Southeast Asia. Previously he worked for more than three decades as a correspondent for NPR.
In Manila, government-sanctioned killings are the new normal
A photo of the crime scene shows a bloodstained Aristotle Garcia lying in the street. He has a .38 caliber pistol in his right hand, a wad of cash in the other. Her brother wasn’t right-handed, though, which means the gun is in the wrong hand.