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The forensic pathologist helping Philippines' 'war on drugs' victims

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Raquel Fortun is one of only two forensic pathologists in the Philippines. Earlier this year, I interviewed her about her mission to discover the truth, and hopefully win justice, for the victims of former president Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs".

Her crusade came about through unlikely circumstances. The victims of Duterte's crackdowns were overwhelmingly from the poorest backgrounds, and many families could not afford to extend temporary leases on their graves. As families began to face eviction from cemeteries five years on from the killings, Fortun offered to carry out investigations to collect evidence about their deaths.

Known to many as just Doc, Fortun does the work for free. She has a no-nonsense manner, and spoke frankly about the risks she faces by working on such politically sensitive cases.

She has found serious irregularities in how official postmortems were performed - including at least a dozen death certificates that wrongly cited natural causes, such as pneumonia or sepsis.

The killings, which estimates suggest led to between 12,000 and 30,000 deaths, are the subject of an investigation by the international criminal court. However, its investigators have been banned from the country, making the work of experts such as Fortun even more crucial.

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