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Thanks for choosing to listen to assignment on the documentary podcast from the BBC World Service.

Six or seven years ago there was one story that repeatedly crossed my radar.

I'd see news photos, usually a woman, her face wet with tears, kneeling on a dark

street made shiny in the rain, and holding a lifeless blooded man, her husband or son. Sometimes the woman looked directly into the

camera, her anguish raw, her life capsized. This was just another night in the

Philippines, just another killing. I never forgot those stories of

gunned down alleged drug users and dealers and neither did a lot of

Filipinos. Here's assignment, bones that speak.

This is the document. This is the documentary from the BBC World Service and this week's assignment comes from the Philippines.

At Manila North Cemetery, Father Flavi Villanueva, a Catholic priest in white, purple and

gold vestments, praise with a bereaved mother beside a concrete tomb.

Then this happens.

So they've got the front of the grave off that's been smashed off. These

vaults are above ground painted vivid colours and stacked on top of each other like a

giant filing cabinet.

The marble plaque that's hammered off first reads, R.I.P. Felicado Virgo.

And now one of the cemetery workers is going in.

Father Fladdy is ready with a body bag here.

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