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The Body of A Man was recovered from The River by the coast guard

The Pasig River , which has its way through Manila's long been a catch basin for the Philippine capital of 13 million people.

How bad is the air pollution in the year 1990, ecologists, declared The River "biologically dead".

Award-winning clean-up efforts have some routes for a return of the under water world show. But in The Last few years, a different kind of Death has come to the Pasig. Locals say that The Body frequency are to be thrown away with alarming. You are a victim, you suspect, The President Rodrigo Duterte brutal War against drugs.

"Sometimes, when we sleep, we would suddenly Wake up because of the excitement," says Regine.

she lives in Tondo, one of The Most densely populated and poorest district of Manila, and for years one of The Most crime-ridden.

The Tondo neighborhood for a long time had high crime rates, she grew up surrounded by violence and crime. But she says that in The Last years, the municipality has also a repeated target of the "Oplan Tokhang" operations, the Philippine National Police codename for drug stings.

your narrow and dark shelter was ambushed.

"showed you the gun at us, looking for you everywhere," she says of a raid. "My Daughter was told, to their clothing, because they suspected that the drugs were hidden on her breast. "

, But also for the RAID it is sometimes, also, the other "riot". Regine believes, killed the people in the neighborhood and dumped in The River Pasig.

"The impact [on the water] sound is really very hard," she says.

"Then we'd get up, But couldn't see anything floating. After maybe four days, we have the news that a body discovered hear would. "

The Police in Manila in routine drug raids, But were also accused of the murders, And she says she has seen Police officers carrying out a killing in Tondo.

"shot and killed the person once," she says. "You weren't even in civilian clothes, But the wearing of uniforms. There are six Police officers were. "

In this area, they call these "rescue" - of extra-judicial, execution-style murders.

Regine's statement was confirmed by one of your neighbors, while five other people also told us that they had seen several bodies in The River - But said she didn't know for sure where they came from were.

But in spite of this testimony, it is likely no one is ever held responsible for the numerous unsolved cases of Death in Tondo.

We put these allegations to the Manila Police District, But they declined to comment.

The Philippine coast guard regularly patrols the Pasig River . According to their records, there are 36 facilities from last year recalled.

We were invited by the coast guard Station Pasig to join them on an early Morning Patrol .

coastguard teams carry out regular patrols along the Pasig River , It even controls the private boat began with the routine berths, But after only 10 Minutes , Deputy commander Mizar Cumbe received a phone call: "There is a floating carcasses in The River ," he said to us.

We drove at High Speed , passing by malacanang Palace - the Home of President Rodrigo Duterte on the way.

About 3 km (1. 8 miles off) further up The River , The Skipper of the Motor.

Before us is a bloated, naked body of A Man face, lay down on a rocky coast under a commercial area. To have The Body rails, the red wounds on his back and belly.

"was He in the water for two or Three Days , because his body is stiff," Mr Cumbe told us, the inspection of The Scene from the Patrol Boat .

Another team of coast guard officers put on rubber gloves and stepped carefully over The Rocks . Notes and photos were taken, And Then The Body was heaved into a zip-up bag and in the nearby Pandacan bridge to expect a forensics unit.

Half an hour later, Jo Bautista of the Manila Police District arrived.

"male, late 20's, no gunshot wounds," he explained. Two men charged of a funeral parlour, The Body on a stretcher and struggled up a steep slope to take it to a Morgue .

The Dead man remained unidentified and was at a funeral parlour of The later autopsy report The Man died of suffocation, But his identity remains unknown was found.

Mr Bautista said, it can take months before the bodies are collected from families, But most of the time you loose on the left of the Lord. Unless someone comes forward to positively identify him, it is unlikely that we will ever know the True Story of how he died.

In the malacanang Palace , the faces on the Pasig, lives of The President , who has a hatred for drugs and a habit to joke about a violent Death .

President Rodrigo Duterte has refused cooperation with rights-investigations Rodrigo Duterte even warned drug dealers: "I will dump all of them in the Bay of Manila, and fatten all the fish the it. "

In June, he delighted an audience of local government officials, by dinner time, he is forced to make a corrupt officials to money or be killed.

"nobody would find out, whether The Body floats in The Sea ," he told The Audience .

Mr Duterte came to power in the year 2016 promises to be a crackdown on the rampant problem with crystal meth, locally known as "shabu".

powered by The President , The Police swept through the predominantly poor population, targeting drug suspects on the lists, compiled by local leaders of the community. For a while, night-time pictures of bloodied body splayed out, which aired on roads and streets, and goods around The World .

Police now, The Number of people killed by them directly at 6.600. They argue that all the murders were in self-defense after the suspect's resistance to arrest.

The President says that crime has decreased in the Philippines 30%, since he came to power, so as to make streets and communities safer.

But Human Rights groups say that The Number of those killed in the War against drugs could be up to 27,000. They say many of the killings, including those carried out by vigilantes, were out-of-court and, therefore, illegal.

The representative of The President to say, his comments about the murder are just jokes, or to be, not serious exaggeration taken.

Amnesty International is one of the rights groups say killings on such a scale, "pass not by chance, But in the pursuit of a public policy articulated at the highest levels".

Last year, Mr Duterte unilaterally moved the Philippines from the jurisdiction of The International criminal court, after it had announced a preliminary examination of the allegations of "crimes against humanity" during the War against the drugs.

, and by its results to the Human Rights Council next year.

Mr Duterte, who said a well-known disregard for the Human Rights groups, he will never be tried by an international body. I'm just going to "face trial in a Philippine court," he said, and added: "I'm not an answer [to] a Caucasian. "

Meanwhile, the Pasig River is the final resting place is still a place for some of The Victims of the Manila force.

Harry 's family identified him by his tattoos, the, to sell after his body was found in The River In September last year, the children were from a slum in Tondo, scavenging for recyclables, if you pulled up to a metal drum under a bridge over The River Pasig.

Inside it was The Body of Harry Lee Honra, at the age of 29. The Drum was filled with cement. His hands and feet were tied, his mouth was gagged.

His Family life in the Novotas area, in the vicinity. His grandmother Flor Rivero helped up Harry .

it told the BBC that he would be a good kid until High School , But had "lazy" and turned to drugs specially shabu - while hanging out with bad Friends .

Harry 's family say they may never know who killed him, so they "will leave it to God," Harry went missing on 20 August 2018. He had to buy a few fish, But if he doesn't come Home , The Family was worried. In conversation with his Friends , The Last you heard was that he had received a call and had to go to meet The Caller . No one knew who it was.

"He has a tattoo of me, his mother, and his daughter to his chest," said Ms. Rivero. "If he's not all tattoos, we would never know that he was there. "

The Family have no idea who killed Harry , or why. Due to the slow and inefficient, said the legal system in the Philippines, Mrs Rivero is not the hope that the case will be solved, "we leave it to God," She Said .

across the city, from Tondo, the Philippines, African Commission on Human Rights (CHR), an organization that Mr. Duterte became increasingly hostile to his inquiries in his War against drugs.

He has accused the organisation of political bias and threatened to reduce its annual budget is only $20.

CHR Karen Gomez says, to the growing list of deaths of children under investigation had a "serious concern" and that the regional Police stations to block or delay the publication of information in the interest of The Public .

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Source of news: bbc.com