Yan po ang pinaka-hate ko Ma’am, yung mga illegal drugs at saka yung mga heinous crimes. Actually, noong nalaman ko yang Tokhang na yan, sorry to say, I am not a police, sinasabi ko lang yung about kay A., yung mga tungkol sa kanyang pagkatao, yung pagbabago niya… Pero noong nalaman kong may pinapatay, hindi ko alam kung masaya ako eh. Siyempre, nasa isip ko kasi, mababawasan ang mga masasamang tao, pero, definitely, hindi dapat naman sa ganyang proseso. Maraming mga rapists, hindi lang naman yang drugs dapat ang... Yun nangyari sa [barangay], yung 14 years old na pinatay na binasag yung ulo niya, yun, salvage na naman yun. Pero sa pananaw ko, hindi pulis ang may kagagawan. (Participant 11) The case of A. also highlighted for them a flaw in the police protocol with regard to its treatment of reformed surrenderees, which did not differentiate them from hardened drug addicts. Palalayasin na sana namin [si A.]. Pinaalis na namin siya. But, hindi namin siya pinaalis kasi nakita naman namin na…. All we are hoping in the Drug Campain ng government we are hoping for a innovation sana. Magandang proyekto sana ang inaasahan namin diyan na they are aiming for the pagbabago sana ng mga Tokhang victims na sinurrender namin willingly to them together with my husband, na kami pa ang nagencourage sa kanila para magbago, eh hindi naman pala pagbabago ang ano nila. Ang objective nila, para lipunin pala silang lahat, patayin silang lahat. Yung lang discouragement and disappointment namin na nangyari,wala lang room for improvement sana kasi napa-drastic na yung move ng government na ganyan. (Participant 1) As I have stated a while ago, I agree to what the government has been doing sa Anti-drug Campaign na na yan. Maganda nga noong una, yung sinabi din ni Kagawad, maganda nga noong una, kasi ang alam namin, ang akala namin, they are after the recovery of the drugdependent and then the drug pusher. Pero nitong huli na nga, nangyari na yan, eh hindi naman pala yun ang naging objective na nila, naging very harsh ang implementation naman ng mga recovery program ng gobyerno with the use of the police force…. (Participant 8) One participant even stated that the killings are not just part of the design but also a measure of accomplishment for the police. Talagang inamin sa amin na one of the branches of the police dito na they are doing it for accomplishment…. Inamin nila talaga they are doing it. Because we are asking, there was a time na may anonymous text sa amin, yung tungkol sa anak ko, na may threat, nataranta kaming mag-asawa. Bakit mayroong threat ang anak ko eh wala naman sa Tokhang ang pangalan niya? So, ang ginawa ng husband ko, pumunta siya sa…nilapitan niya lahat, PDEA, CIDG, [LGU] Police, nilapitan niya lahat, tinatanong niya kung may pangalan ang anak ko. Pare-parehas ang sagot nila, wala siyang pangalan dito pero tignan mo sa iba at baka mayroon silang pangalan, kasi marami kaming grupo…. (Participant 2) Still, some also believe that it is not only the police who are involved in the killings. Rather, “Tokhang” and “EJK” has become a catch-all term for various cases of killings, even when it has not yet been established that it is drug-related or not. Moreover, for one participant, when a case is deemed to be of “Tokhang” or “EJK”, it is no longer investigated. Panaghoy: The Philippine War on Drugs from the Perspective of Women March 2019 46