Headlines
  • False or misleading informations are spread by organizations posing as legitimate media outlets in an attempt to twist public opinion in favor of a certain ideology.
  • On social media,watch out for fake messages,pictures,Videos and news.
  • Always Check Independent Fact Checking Sites if You Have Some Doubts About the Authenticity of Any Information or Picture or video.
  • Check Google Images for AuthThe Google Reverse Images search can helps you.
  • It Would Be Better to Ignore Social Media Messages that are forwarded from Unknown or Little-Known Sources.
  • If a fake message asks you to share something, you can quickly recognize it as fake messege.
  • It is a heinous crime and punishable offence to post obscene, morphed images of women on social media networks, sometimes even in pornographic websites, as retaliation.
  • Deepfakes use artificial intelligence (AI)-driven deep learning software to manipulate preexisting photographs, videos, or audio recordings of a person to create new, fake images, videos, and audio recordings.
  • AI technology has the ability to manipulate media and swap out a genuine person's voice and likeness for similar counter parts.
  • Deepfake creators use this fake substance to spread misinformation and other illegal activities.Deepfakes are frequently used on social networking sites to elicit heated responses or defame opponents.
  • One can identify AI created fake videos by identifying abnormal eye movement, Unnatural facial expressions, a lack of feeling, awkward-looking hand,body or posture,unnatural physical movement or form, unnatural coloring, Unreal-looking hair,teeth that don't appear natural, Blurring, inconsistent audio or noise, images that appear unnatural when slowed down, differences between hashtags blockchain-based digital fingerprints, reverse image searches.
  • Look for details,like stange background,orientation of teeth,handsclothing,asymmetrical facial features,use reverse image search tools.

More Details

Relative of Drug War Victims: ‘We Are Here Trying to Survive’

Aie Balagtas See/Manilla

Mary Anne Domingo, whose husband and son were killed during former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, grills meat to sell to visitors on All Saints’ Day at the La Loma cemetery in Manila, Nov. 1, 2022.Photo Courtesy:Aie Balagtas See/BenarNews

Mary Anne Domingo, whose husband and son were killed in the Philippine drug war, said she intended to make a statement as she sold skewers of grilled food to people honoring saints or dead loved ones at a cemetery here.

Domingo and others who manned a coffee and food tent near a police outpost at the La Loma cemetery sought to remind officers and the general public that they are living victims of the drug war waged by former President Rodrigo Duterte.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, thousands of Filipinos visited cemeteries in Manila and across the mostly Catholic nation to mark All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day, respectively.

“By being here, I would like them to know that we are humans, too. We have dreams just like them. We are still here fighting, and we are here trying to survive,” Domingo told BenarNews.

Domingo said she had been dreaming for years of selling merchandise at the cemetery, but lacked the capital.

This year, with help from the Diocese of Caloocan and the Silingan Coffee Shop, a cafe devoted to drug war victims, Domingo set up a grill in a tent close to the police.

The coffee shop, located in Quezon City, employs families of drug war victims. The shop is a place where customers hear stories from those left behind. 

Domingo said she had imagined having police for customers so she could share the feelings of injustice that she and others have suffered. Because of the influx of people, she had little time to speak to customers, who, perhaps, might have included the audience of her dreams.

Grace Garganta, whose brother and father were killed in the Philippine drug war, shows a family photo as she takes a break while working as a barista at the Silingan Coffee Shop stand at the La Loma cemetery, Nov. 1, 2022. Photo Courtesy:Aie Balagtas See/BenarNews

A few meters away, Emily Soriano could only watch from her stall where she sold candles and flowers.

Soriano said she wished she could join mourners to pay respect to her loved one, but money was scarce. Faced with feeding five children, she also must work to earn enough to renew the annual lease on a cemetery niche housing the body of her son, Angelito.

In the Philippines, leases on graves and above-ground niches are renewed annually after the original five-year lease expires. Those who fail to pay can see the remains of their loved ones removed from the cemetery.

“I visited him last week and apologized because I couldn’t be with him on this day,” Soriano told BenarNews as she choked back tears.

Angelito, 15, was killed on Dec. 28, 2016, in what was known as the “Caloocan massacre.” He would have been 21 this year had he not been attacked for allegedly going to a drug den. Six others were killed alongside him, most of them teenagers like Angelito. 

All were gunned down in the Duterte administration’s war on drugs that killed about 8,000 alleged addicts and pushers, according to government statistics.

The Silingan Coffee Shop in the Cubao district in Quezon City, Metro Manila, features written tributes to those killed in former President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, Feb. 26, 2022. Photo Courtesy:Jojo Riñoza/BenarNews

Just days before the vote to elect his successor earlier this year, Duterte said he might have underestimated the extent of the nation’s drug problem when he promised to end the scourge soon after taking office in 2016.

“I said I can clean it in six months. Then after that, I realized that I had made a mistake. Maybe it’s hubris,” Duterte said in April 2022.

Human rights advocacy groups have cast doubt on the accuracy of the government’s statistics, and say that as many as 20,000 to 30,000 could have been killed, when accounting for attacks committed by vigilantes.

Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court have been petitioning to carry out an investigation here, but Duterte’s successor, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., has denied them access. 

Copyright ©2015-2022, BenarNews. Used with the permission of BenarNews.

Related Article

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024

Myanmar Junta Airstrike Kills Vhildren Playing…

Myanmar’s air force bombed a church where displaced people were sheltering near the border with Ch ...
November 18, 2024

Bangkok Court Clears Thai Woman of…

A Bangkok court on Thursday acquitted a Thai woman accused of supporting two Chinese ethnic Uyghur m ...
November 8, 2024

Residents of Kamala Harris’s Ancestral Indian…

At the Hindu temple in Thulasendrapuram, the ancestral village of Kamala Harris, in Tamil Nadu, Indi ...
November 7, 2024

TikTok Deletes Videos Related to Uyghur…

Authorities in Xinjiang have banned Uyghurs from using social media apps, including Chinese-owned ...
November 6, 2024

In Post-Hasina Bangladesh,Awami League Faces Uncertain…

With its leaders in jail or fleeing from justice, the party that led Bangladesh to independence and ...
October 29, 2024

Other Article

Video Report

Despite Risks,Unaccompanied Child Migrants Keep Crossing…

One of the top entry points for migrants under the age of eighteen who enter the United States witho ...
November 22, 2024
News & Views

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina on…

Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina who has spent 14 years on death row in Indonesia, will be coming home b ...
November 21, 2024
Video Report

Trapped in Lebanon, African Migrants Face…

Many of the estimated 176,000 migrants living in Lebanon are African women who are working menial jo ...
Pick of the Day

Permanent Representative of France Briefs Press…

Nicolas de Rivière,Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations, briefs reporters after ...
November 20, 2024
Video Report

The Impact on a Ukrainian Family…

This week marks 1,000 days of fighting in Ukraine.For millions of Ukrainians, including 32-year-old ...
Pick of the Day

UN Security Council Meets to Discuss…

James Kariuki,Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and Presid ...
November 19, 2024

[wp-rss-aggregator feeds="crime-more-world"]
Top