Albuera,officially the Municipality of Albuera,is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Leyte,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 47,151 people.
Antonio Fuentes Trillanes IV is a retired Philippine naval officer who also served as a senator of the Philippines from 2007 to 2019. He is known for his involvement in the Oakwood mutiny of 2003 and the Manila Peninsula siege in 2007 in protest against the Arroyo administration,and as a vocal critic of the Duterte administration.
Leila Norma Eulalia Josefa Magistrado de Lima is a Filipina politician,lawyer,human rights activist and law professor who previously served as a Senator of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. She was the chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights from 2008 to 2010,before serving in President Benigno Aquino III's cabinet as Secretary of Justice from 2010 to 2015.
2016 in the Philippines details events that occurred in the Philippines in 2016.
2017 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in 2017.
The following are the events in related to Philippine law in 2016. This includes developments in criminal investigations of national notability.
Vitaliano "Vit" Napeñas Aguirre II is a Filipino lawyer serving as a commissioner of the National Police Commission from January 11,2021 to June 30,2022. He previously served as Secretary of Justice under the Duterte administration from 2016 until his resignation in 2018,and vice president and chief legal counsel of Clark Development Corporation under former President Benigno Aquino III. He gained wide public attention in 2012 during the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona when he was cited for contempt after he was caught covering his ears while being lectured by the late Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago.
Ronald Marapon dela Rosa,also known as Bato,is a Filipino politician and retired police officer who is currently serving as a senator of the Philippines since 2019. He served under the Duterte administration as the chief of the Philippine National Police from July 1,2016,to April 19,2018,overseeing the government's anti-drug campaign;he also served as the Director General of the Bureau of Corrections from April 30 to October 12,2018.
The Philippine drug war,known as the War on Drugs,is the intensified anti-drug campaign of the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte,who served office from June 30,2016,to June 30,2022. The campaign reduced drug proliferation in the country,but has been marred by extrajudicial killings allegedly perpetrated by the police and unknown assailants. An estimated 7,742 civilians have been killed in "anti-drug operations" carried out by the government and its supporters between 2016 and 2021.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte made a speech at the Naval Station Felix Apolinario in Camp Panacan,Davao City on August 7,2016. In the speech,delivered shortly after midnight during his wake visit to four NavForEastMin soldiers killed during clashes with the New People's Army in Compostela Valley,Duterte revealed the names of 150 public officials,including mayors and other local government executives,legislators,police,military and judges,found to be involved in illegal drug trade. He described the drugs situation in the country as "pandemic" after 600,000 drug dealers and dependents have surrendered to the police in just one month since he took office.
The New Bilibid Prison drug trafficking scandal is a criminal investigation and political scandal concerning allegations of government involvement in illegal drug trade at the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa,Metro Manila,Philippines. The allegations were made by President Rodrigo Duterte after announcing that the two top convicted drug lords in the country continued to run their drug rings from inside the national penitentiary with former administration officials and their local government cohorts as co-conspirators. On August 25,2016,Duterte released a drug matrix showing the structure of drug trafficking operations at the New Bilibid Prison and identified the two former top officials of the Department of Justice,the former provincial governor and board member of Pangasinan,and the former Bureau of Corrections director as being involved in the Bilibid narcotics trade.
Jee Ick-Joo was a South Korean businessman kidnapped by two policemen and later found dead on October 18,2016,within the grounds of Camp Crame,the headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP). A funeral parlor cremated his remains and flushed his ashes down a toilet.
Protests against Former President Rodrigo Duterte escalated on November 18,2016,following Duterte's support of the burial of the late president Ferdinand Marcos. These series of protests are mostly conducted by progressive groups and other opposing figures mainly due to the ongoing war on drugs,the declaration of martial law in Mindanao,and employment issues such as contractual terms being applied by companies and inflation which occurred due to the passage of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion Law. Other causes of the protests include the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country,the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020,and the shutdown and franchise denial of ABS-CBN.
At dawn of Sunday,July 30,2017,Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) and the Ozamiz City police conducted a simultaneous raid in the house of the Parojinogs in Ozamiz and other associated properties,leaving 15 persons killed,including incumbent Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog and his wife. Another member of the Parojinog family died in the hospital three days after the raid. Parojinog is the third mayor to be killed during the course of country's war on drugs after Rolando Espinosa of Albuera,Leyte eight months prior and Samsudin Dimaukom of Datu Saudi-Ampatuan,Maguindanao nine months prior.
2018 in the Philippines details events of note that happened in the Philippines in 2018.
Since September 2018,allegations of an ouster plot against Rodrigo Duterte,the President of the Philippines,have been publicized by the military,who mainly implicated opposition figures and critics of the Duterte administration of involving in the plot. Several opposition groups who have been tagged heavily criticized their inclusion and subsequently denied the involvement in the plots.
The Negros killings were a series of targeted assassinations carried out by unidentified gunmen in the provinces of Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental in the Philippines. Some of the victims involved were suspected Communists or sympathizers. Following the killings,Memorandum Order No. 32 was signed by Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea on November 23,2018,upon the orders of President Rodrigo Duterte deploying additional troops to the provinces of Negros Oriental,Negros Occidental,Samar,and the Bicol Region to "suppress sporadic acts of violence" allegedly committed by lawless groups and to "prevent such violence from spreading and escalating elsewhere in the country." Even after the memorandum was signed,the incidence of killings continued. According to the Defend Negros Movement,the first recorded extrajudicial killing on Negros Island was Alexander Ceballos on January 20,2017. The group also alleged that at least 84 persons have been killed since 2017.
Ninja cops,or narco cops,is a term that was popularized at the height of the Philippine drug war,which began during the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte in 2016. It refers to a label used to refer to police personnel who are alleged to be involved in the illegal drug trade themselves by reselling portion of the contraband seized in anti drug operations.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Jovie Espenido is a controversial Filipino police officer known as a crusader against illegal drugs.
On February 24,2021,a botched buy-bust operation resulted in a shootout between units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City. The incident resulted in the deaths of two police officers,a PDEA agent and an informant. Both agencies claimed that they had been conducting a legitimate anti-drug operation.
