EU supporting anti-extrajudicial killing initiative.

Extrajudicial killings - that is, executions performed by the police or military without the benefit of a trial - are a huge problem in the Philippines. The issue garnered a lot of attention last November when 52 people were killed in a single massacre. 32 of the victims were journalists. The rest were members of a politically important family; the perpetrators were apparently members of a rival family, and it has been alleged that the weapons were provided by the military.

Now, in an effort to promote real justice and free speech, the European Union is contributing €3.9 million to combat extrajudicial killings.

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