From the Marcos Martial Law period to 2000, one lawyer was killed each year (18 in 18 years). From 2001 to the present, there have been 204 lawyers killed at a yearly rate of about 8.87.
The NUPL has recorded a total of 262 work-related attacks in the past 15 years, including that of 86 lawyers, judges and prosecutors. Five of whom were members of the NUPL.
This translates to an average of seven lawyers killed every year.
A city’s peace / once more cracked, broken / by a heinous deed / against a barrister of a people’s rights.
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