MANILA ¨C Divers have spent more than a month searching a lake south of Manila for the bodies of men with links to the Philippines¡¯ bloody national obsession: cockfighting.
They were murdered by rogue police, a government witness says, allegedly for rigging matches at the height of the country¡¯s pandemic-era craze for betting on livestreamed cockfights, or ¡°e-sabong.¡±
The disappearances led then-President Rodrigo Duterte to announce a total ban, but three years later, the e-sabong industry is still thriving.
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