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Other tunes, just as popular in the Philippines, have not resulted in murder. Butch Albarracin, the owner of "Center for Pop", a Manila-based singing school, also believes the lyrics of "My Way" increase the violence. The lyrics, as he explained, "evoke feelings of pride and arrogance in the singer, as if you're somebody when you're really nobody.
The ATC has tagged multiple local based groups in the Philippines in 2020 who have pledged allegiance to the militant Islamist group Islamic State based in Iraq and Syria using multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions to justify the designation including Resolution Nos. 1373 and 2253. One noted incident was the Marawi siege of 2017. [5]
On January 31, 2017, Amnesty International published a report of their investigation of 59 drug-related killings in 20 cities and towns, "'If you are poor you are killed': Extrajudicial Executions in the Philippines' 'War on Drugs'", which "details how the police have systematically targeted mostly poor and defenceless people across the country ...
In 2014, the Philippines had a murder rate of 9.84 per 100,000 people, with a number of 9,784 recorded cases. The country also has the highest rate of murder cases in Southeast Asia in 2013, with a rate of 8.8, followed by Thailand. [1]
Notable criminally-active gangs in the Philippines include: Asian Boyz; Temple Street (gang) True Brown Style; Bahala Na Gang; Budol-Budol Gang [1] Dugo-Dugo Gang [1] Kuratong Baleleng; Martilyo Gang [2] Salisi Gang [1] Zesto Gang [1] Satanas (gang) Sigue Sigue Sputnik; Waray-Waray gangs [3]
The Sputnik gang was also one of the main combatants during the 2020 New Bilibid Prison riots, one of the largest prison riots in contemporary Philippines. Although the reasons varied for the cause of the riot (investigations either saying it was started when a Sputnik gang member was killed or beheaded, or one of their LGBT members was ...
A super typhoon ripped through Philippines’ largest island on Sunday, knocking down houses and sending more than half a million people to emergency shelters, as rare back-to-back storms cause ...
The heyday of the Waray-Waray gangs gave birth to the negative stereotypical belief in the Philippines that the Waray people are a violent ethnic group compared to others. [25] In an opinion column for a newspaper written on July 25, 2011, Prof. Gerry B. De Cadiz of the Eastern Visayas State University condemned the actions of the Waray-Waray ...